Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their pay in Montreal one day last week and entrained soon after for Ogdensburg, N. Y., the circus officials made no comment about the strange mounds that appeared in the bunks, strange piles in animal cages, strange packages stuffed into corners and tied under cars, all over the four-section caravan. They left the commenting to Prohibition agents at Malone, N. Y., after the trains had crossed the border. Such is the reputation of Circus Man John Ringling for discipline and probity-he entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials...
...Treaty of Versailles provides, in Part VIII, Section II, Article 247, that: "Germany undertakes to furnish to the University of Louvain . . . manuscripts, incunabula?, printed books, maps and objects of collection corresponding in number and value to those destroyed in the burning by Germany of the Library of Louvain...
Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...
...Monday, June 4 I purchased a copy of TIME and was delighted to find under the section devoted to Religion a story about the appearance on the platform of Kansas City, of Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME...
...have manifested a deep concern in the problems of agriculture. . . . We will and must find a sound solution that will bring security and contentment to this great section of our people...