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Word: sections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane that fell into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSSING THE BAR | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

...this is not fair representation, because the elections themselves are a farce. The members of the Union Committee and its chairman are far better fitted to serve as the standard bearers for the new class. Their selection is carefully and democratically made, in order to represent a cross section of the entire group, from high school and prep school, from East and West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRACY IN THE YARD | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

...laggard to take to the courts against Section 11 of the Public Utility Act of 1935-the section described in the press as "the death sentence"-was American Water Works & Electric Co. Inc. Last February American Water Works withdrew its suit and registered with SEC. Five months ago American Water Works became one of the first of some 90 holding companies which are now registered with SEC to file a voluntary plan for reorganization. And last week SEC, pleased to find a public utility that wanted to cooperate, gave its approval in all major respects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Except Prunes | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...with his lips pierced with pins, kosher beef being slaughtered, a bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Click | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, and their associates, who for twelve years have been working on separating U. S. English from English English (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936), were almost finished with the Bs last week. Issued by the University of Chicago Press was the third section of their dictionary, Blood and Thunder- Butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blood & Thunder-to-Butterfly | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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