Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This solution, it was reported, will divide Yugoslavia into three autonomous provinces: 1) the Dalmatian coast, Croatia in the northwest; 2) central Bosnia, where dwell a confusion of Moslem, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Serbs and Croats; 3) southeastern Serbia. Each section will have separate self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether...
Rising fast in these tough times was a tough, nervous, roving-eyed, brown-haired young spy named Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and a Bolivian mother. He grew up in the section where Germán Busch was born, not far from most of Standard Oil's Bolivian fields. Dionisio Foianini studied pharmacy in Italy, returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded...
...however they interpret it, readers are not likely to miss the development in the rhythm and mood of the writing: the bobbing facetious note in the first passages; the clogged, heavy, stupefied quality that marks the middle section; the mood, half-exultation, half-sadness, on which it ends: "A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights...
...Doodling statisticians have counted up names of 700 rivers in the 20-page Anna Livia section...
...Tuesday the CRIMSON will poll the members of the Class of 1942 on what they think of the various Freshman courses, what value they have derived from them, and their opinions of lecturers and section men. The results of the project will be incorporated into the 1930 edition of the Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses...