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Word: sections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed Nazi accusations of the "deplorable mistreatment" of German men and women in the Bromberg section of the Polish Corridor and an announcement in Warsaw that "baby bonds" would be floated among the people to raise $228,000,000 for air force and anti-aircraft expansion...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

Over 100,000 square-miles in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, gales raged up to 40, 50, even 80 m.p.h. Relatively moist and verdant this year in its south west section, protected by terracing and furrow farming, the Bowl got nothing like its 1935 dusting. But farmers sneezed and grew red-eyed, Oklahoma City motorists needed headlights at midday, in some parts of Oklahoma visibility shrank to 100 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Bowl Dusted | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...principle is that of cutting a light beam up into a certain number of sections per second, then measuring the length of one section. This is like clocking a freight train when you know the length of the cars. If the cars are 30 feet long and you see that two of them pass a given point every second, you know the speed is 60 feet per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest Thing | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...train of light emitted from a 1,000-watt lamp is "sectioned" by a formidable-looking device called a standard frequency generator (see cut), also developed at Harvard, which alternately brightens and dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest Thing | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success . . . Harry James starts half way through "One O'Clock Jump," and ends up playing "Two O'Clock Jump" (Brunswick). The brass section plays too softly. Just a bit louder, and one could do away with the chapel bell . . . Asked Joe Jones, Count Basie's drummer, the other day how he could stand playing the pop tunes that all bands must. Reply was "Ah just leans back and Ah thinks of low lights...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

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