Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the New York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. O. P. organ of the East, said in an editorial: "The unique and impressive fact of the Hoover campaign is the fashion in which it has stirred spontaneous support in every section of the country...
French intelligence solved the problem by an announcement that a "midnight storm" had washed away a section of the one comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
...England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and to the South. When the Chicago Tribune castigates "the effete East," it usually refers to New England...
...Break. At 1 a. m. one night last week the St. Francis dam broke at each end, although the centre section (200 ft. high) held fast. Twelve billion gallons of water in the form of a wave 75 ft. high went charging down the San Francisquito Canyon, into the Santa Clara River. By the time it reached the Pacific Ocean, 75 miles away, it was little more than a malicious trickle. But behind were the wiped-out towns of Newhall, Saugus, Piru, Fillmore, Santa Paula; 305 dead humans, thousands of dead animals; little white flags designating corpses found by rescue...
Albania was formerly under the control of the Turks, and as such had no voice in the government of the section. The sanitation was primitive and education unknown. When Albania was freed and set up as an independent state, the people were in too impoverished a condition to effect their own welfare...