Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...
...young Mr. McIlhenny plug at this task of curatorial scholarship that his exhibition is by way of being a landmark in the scientific treatment of art. On the cover of the Daumier catalogue is no lithograph or painting but an X-ray photograph. The X-ray shows a section of the wood panel on which Daumier painted La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), a celebrated work lent by the Louvre and insured for 3,000,000 francs...
Since English A-1 is made up both of men interested in improving their technique in writing and of others who hope to make creative composition a major part of their college work, the present system of dividing an enrollment of two hundred men into four sections--with no section specializing in either of the two types of writing--is inadequate to the needs of the class as a whole. For with this cleavage of interest-the instructors are placed in a quandary and must either favor those taking the course to develop their technique and slight those concerned with...
Relying on two glockenspiels for the melody and gaining terrific power from its percussion section comprised of a pair of cymbals, several drums, and a pail, rendered notable offerings of "Ten Thousand Men of Kirkland" and other well-known Deacon marching songs...
Between selection the musicians formed the corps of Kirkland's cheering section...