Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever 30 History 38 Sever 30 Latin B III Sever 18 Philosophy 3b Emerson D Physics C New Lect. Hall Physics 3b Emerson D Tomorrow 9.15 o'clock Anthropology 8 Emerson J Botany 10 Gray Herb. Chemistry 9 Harvard 6 English 4 Emerson J French 5, 1 o'clock section French 24 Emerson J German A Mr. Hawkess, sects. 13, 19 Memorial Hall Dr. Herrick, sects. 1, 15 Memorial Hall Dr. von Oy, sects. 2, 12,14 Memorial Hall Mr. Bennett, sect. 10 New Lect. Hall Dr. Heffner, sect. 3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Kite, sects. 6, 8 New Lect...
Porter. New York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended...
Other "first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...
...Track section between signals; length: one to two miles...
...Mille decided to film the Bible. There were groans at the announcement that the man who wears the nattyist sport shirts in Hollywood and who has the most devoted elique of yes-men ever gathered, and that in a city where yes-men are as thick as section-men in Cambridge, intended to make a cinema version of the Testaments...