Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gummere and Company weigh in the balance each spring the legions of high school presidents, football captains, and geniuses, they rely chiefly on the results of the College Board Achievement Tests. But along with the democratization and the testing remains an unbending remnant of past glories, a significant segment which finds the path of admission strewn with the roses of one of about twenty New England schools. The last class admitted to the College under normal peacetime standards--1945--found itself when it arrived in the fall of 1941 with the usual 50-50 ratio of public and private school...
...collected unprecedented powers, but which could not collect its wits for leadership. The tempo of life and work has quickened. Factory managers reported that their employees were "really getting down to it." Even the Tory party, which since its crushing defeat of 1945 had been the most torpid segment of the British scene, suddenly came sufficiently alive to win an election. Just 24 hours before the votes were counted, a TIME correspondent in London had reported: "The Tories are less certain of not winning...
Patrick D. Dailey '50, who attended the meeting for the Student Council, stated he was definitely "in sympathy with an investigation if even a very small segment of the student body thinks it necessary." He too voiced the desire for a "dispassionate" survey...
Giant China is squeezed in a double Communist encirclement-from without and from within. Inside the country, Chinese Communists push for power. From without, unremitting pressure is applied to the frontier provinces. Last week, this pressure was squeezing hard on a huge, little-known segment of China-mineral-and oil-rich Sinkiang Province...
Although this latter institution-Sargent College, along with the various graduate schools, does not qualify under the eligibility rules, theis still leaves a healthy segment of local manhod to choose a team from, as one of B.U.'s proudest boasts, published in Football Facts, is that its enrollment "includes more Congregationalists than are to be found in Amherst and Dartmouth Colleges, both of them established by the Congregationalists: more Baptists than in the Baptist Colleges . . . Bates and Colby: more Episcopalians than in Trinity: more Methodists than in the Methodist colleges of Wesleyan, Connecticut, and Wesleyan, Georgia, combined: more Unitarians than...