Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME of Oct. 28, in its "Business & Finance" section, comments on Mr. Ivar Kreuger under the heading "Monopolist" and, at the top of p. 46, states: "In this country, his International Match Co. controls about 75% of all match production...
Birthday. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium; in Manhattan. Age: 62. She celebrated by: 1) Receiving callers at the home of her longtime friend Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola...
...language requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...
...made against standardization as applied to the American short story, perhaps because this is more closely allied to the author's usual sphere of influence. The implications of his economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters of their operatives...
...north end of the lower room has been devoted entirely to stacks on which some of the valuable books are to be stored This section will be separated from the remainder of the study room by locked doors. Glass casings have been built over the shelves surrounding the open space, and several tables and chairs will be placed about the room. These are to be used by men making studies for which facts can be found only in the volumes of the Treasure Room...