Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statistical statement of the facts in the report of the Associated Harvard Club's Committee on Schools. This report, which will be read at the meeting of the Associated Clubs in Memphis three weeks hence, shows that whereas in 1900 New Englanders outnumbered students from any other section of the country by more than three and one half to one, in 1925 the ratio was less than two and a third...
...flasks and hidden bottles before they serve them with cracked ice or ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they may sit at tables and sniff; a good smell will convict. -The court reached its decision on the intorpretation of one word of the law. Section 21 of the Volstead Act states: "Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure or place where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, kept or bartered in violation of this title, and all intoxicating liquor and property kept and used in maintaining the same is hereby declared to be a common nuisance...
...audience that heard this impressive statement, delivered last week in Atlantic City by Edward McKernon, superintendent of the eastern division of the Associated Press, was a band of publicity men representing the Federal Council of Churches. A very different section of the U. S. was simultaneously being given a very different picture of the Associated Press...
Harvard is grateful. After having been told repeatedly that Harvard men are merely Ph.D.'s and section men it is comforting to be approached on the subject on one's personal glamour. The fact that many other colleges and universities are receiving the same honor does not detract from its value, for while a Yale movie star is conceivable even the cheeriest enthusiast has heretofore failed to prophesy a Harvard cinema idol...
Last week a crew made up of eight young ladies from Oxford met a crew made up of eight young young ladies from Cambridge in a half-mile race against time on the Isis River, England. In spite of some secrecy, an unwelcomed male cheering section of 5,000 was on hand and saw the Oxford ladies, urged by a fair coxswain wearing a corsage of violets, triumph over their Cambridge rivals. U. S. headline writers derived great inspiration from the announcement that the winning crew wore skirts; the losers, pants...