Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's National Emergency Council on "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (TIME, July 18), blacks mingled freely with whites in selecting their seats. They did so, at least, for two days. Then the police of Birmingham appeared and, herding the black delegates into a segregated section, enforced the city's Jim Crow...
...case of Hutchins' exaggeration. As for the fair play, there is no question that the kind of pressure afforded by big-time football is an education for everyone concerned, from the regulars and the scrubs and the band and the managers and the hangers-on down to the cheering section...
After three weeks he cuts a section of tendon from a toe or wrist, transplants one end inside the fingertip, ties the other to a notch in the steel rod, gradually withdraws the rod through the finger, pulling the new tendon into the sheath-a process like that used by any woman in pulling an elastic through a hem. Finally...
...took refuge under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. Steered by Chairman Kenneth David Steere, who as a partner of Paine, Webber & Co. handled many a market operation for the Vans, it presently submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...
...first place, if after November Hours the budding mathematician attempts to change his section, he will find that this is quite impossible because no two instructors cover the field in the same order. And not only do the section men assert their independence in the matter of order, but they also differ in their exams and teaching technique. On the one hand there are men who make every effort to teach, to clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course...