Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge Julian W. Mack called the twelve jurors to him, explained to them the law and the charges, told them to start deliberating. That night they called for a section of the exhibits (evidence); pondered thereon; went to their rooms at the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan. All the next day at the federal building they tried to reach a decision, failed. Judge Mack told them to try again. More nights in locked hotel rooms, more days in a stuffy juryroom with peekers looking through the windows . . . blasphemy, threats . . stubborn Juror No. 9 . . . sick Juror No. 6 who had been shell-shocked...
...Bickle, British Columbia, one Dave Irons was walking up a trail with a bag of salt. Every week he came to this lonely patch of hill-furze and spikeberry, the loneliest section of his range, to salt his cows; once he had seen a bear here, and looking at the place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair...
...persons parking cars inside of Soldiers Field there will be a ticket booth located near Section 26, and for persons parking cars on the Speedway there will be a ticket booth located at Gate 14 in the southwest corner of Soldiers Field...
Reserved tickets will be sold only at Gates 3, 4 and 6 on North Harvard Street. Gate 14 on the Speedway, and at a booth inside the field near Section...
...lack of inspiration runs through the whole body of teachers in the University. There are no more exceptions low than high and it is the present intention to point out that large courses suffer as much from the studious pre-occupation of section men as the small ones do from the scholarly inclinations of professors. It is, moreover, true that the evil of lifeless section men is the mere deplorable because they officiate in almost all freshman courses. Despite occasional lectures from on high, they tend to typify Harvard pedagogy in the eyes of the newcomers. It is thus that...