Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capital stock of the New York Edison Co., one of the two largest electric operating units in the U. S. With its dozen main subsidiaries it supplies the 5,000,000 people of New York City, boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, and a large section of adjoining Westchester County with practically all their gas and electricity...
Also operating in Greater New York is the Brooklyn Union Gas Co., which supplies artificial gas (made by heating coal) to the greater part of Brooklyn and a large and growing section of Queens. Its assets are more than $100,000,000 and Secretary
Harvard's varsity crew weighs 1480 pounds. It is the beefiest crew that has been put together by any college for a long time. Last week in Philadelphia the Harvard cheering section sitting in a temporary grandstand built on the edge of the Schuylkill River yelled themselves hoarse and the student band boomed and whooped as that beefy crew pulled past the judges' barge three quarters of a length ahead of Penn, with the Navy third. "Beat Yale at New London and then try for the Olympics!" cried Harvard old grads...
...faculty the Cornell plan anticipates what has been the only flaw in the Reading Period. At Harvard the tutors, who might be expected to give significance in terms of divisionals and fields of concentration to the final harvesting of a half-year's study, cannot be consulted, while the section man, often as like to the tutor as the captain to the crew of the captain's gig, keeps precarious office hours...
...management of the theatre has announced that for entrance to the the are on Saturday evening, members of the club are to show their club cards to the doorman. All members will sit together in a specially reserved section of the theatre...