Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the Boer and the British population. A dozen emblems have been suggested- only to be fiercely denounced by one side or the other. The Dutch (Boers) would have none of the Union Jack, seeing in that emblem a sign of their defeat by the British; the English-speaking section would no more tolerate the republican flags, unless the Union Jack were an integral part of a new national flag, seeing in their presence a movement designed to set up a republic, thus seceding from the British Commonwealth of Nations...
Bared Brains. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon with Dr. Philip Bard pared off various parts from the brains of animals and studied what functions were lost and what remained. They discovered that emotional activity is controlled by a very small section in the optic thalamus. This is either of a pair of oblong masses of grey matter situated in the inner recesses of the brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control...
...Analyses (Brentano, $2.50), Dr. Freud argues that psychoanalysis must be performed by especially trained therapeutists, that such treaters need not have medical qualifications, that they may be laymen. It is best for a patient to have separate physical and psychical examinations given by different people. In a second section of this book Dr. Freud gives an autobiographical study of himself. He is a candid and tolerant gentleman...
...ascendancy: Georgia Tech torturing North Carolina 13-0; Georgia burning Auburn 33-3. At Richmond spectators eyes were glued on Al Barnes, Virginia Military Institute halfback as he crashed 21 yards through University of Maryland. There was another crash. Through a great ragged hole in the massed audience a section of the wooden stands disappeared. Players, horrified, forgot the game; rushed over to assist the rescue. Four score persons were injured; over a dozen seriously...
...Canadian farmer with a team of horses tugged the wreckage of an airplane out of the St. Lawrence River. In the cockpit were found a watch and a pair of socks. A wing section, 13 feet long, washed up elsewhere. Of the flyers no trace...