Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among important positions which he held were an appointment to the International Commission on Nomenclature of Plants, Vice-President of the Section of Nomenclature of the International Botanical Congress--to be held in Stock-holm in 1950--and a membership in the British Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...freshman year, I attended the Harvard-Yale game. I found it interesting enough, but when the fans in my section discovered that I preferred to remain comfortably seated even when our team was scoring, I was booed and hissed from the stands. I never went to another football game...
...Dallas last week, the City Council ignored grumblings of a delegation of whites, voted unanimously to let 36-year-old Bill Cothrum, a white contractor, build a 408-unit Negro housing development on land adjacent to a white section. "We talk of doing things to house the Negroes," argued one of Cothrum's supporters, "but I don't blame them for looking at us with distrust in their eyes...of course we have to make sacrifices." The city of Jackson, Miss. opened a new $500,000 park for Negroes, then voted a $350,000 bond issue to build...
...three paragraphs read, in part, "we condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers." Reporters either deleted this section entirely or moved it much lower in their stories. The result, for most readers, was a simple statement that Communists should be banned from the teaching profession--top educators had come around and were finally siding with the "Little Dies" committees...
...fire on the roof of Radcliffe's Whitman Hall yesterday morning destroyed four mattreases and a section of the roof's railing before grounds maintenance men and firemen arrived...