Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little guilty about that, did he not know that the tradition has been soured by unspontaneity. The game is where it has always been, on the knees of the gods and the linemen. And at the needful moment, in the Yale Bowl, it will be for the cheering section to show that Harvard's old and inextinguishable pride in the Harvard team has lost nothing more than a blurring anachronism." November...
Skeptics gaped at reports that in the fructiferous Milk River Valley of Alberta several persons bought farms, last autumn, which they have now paid for out of the proceeds of one summer's crops. Farmer S. I. Harris, shrewd, bought a Milk River quarter section for $15 per acre, raised 10,000 bushels of wheat, and with the proceeds more than paid for his land. Farmers Loft & Pederson slightly bettered even this phenomenal procedure, but other Milk Riverites were perceptibly less fortunate...
...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...
Notre Dame looked frail; the Notre Dame cheering section was weak, while two thousand soldiers wrapped in their grey capes roared. They expected to see famed Chris Cagle, the Army halfback, rush through the little men in front of him. Instead, whenever he took the ball, a flock of Notre Dame players started at him like birds which he could not brush away. In the second half it was not Cagle's brilliance but the slow rush of the whole team that brought the ball up the field for a touchdown; somehow Notre Dame struggled back again with...
...pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied companies...