Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street Economist Nicholas Molodovsky of White, Weld & Co. finally took the bull by the horns. Quoth he: "Stock prices are still engaged in a long-term basic cyclical decline. Yet I also believe that, within a shorter segment of time, we are now at the inception of a significant intermediate rise...
...nearly 40 years, the weekly Norfolk Journal and Guide has campaigned so skillfully for the Negro that it is the biggest Negro newspaper in the South (circ. 68,000). It is also about the most soundly edited paper in a segment of the U.S. press that is too often shrill, sensational and irresponsible. Last week the Guide won its third straight Wendell Willkie award-for public service in Negro journalism. Said Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships and chairman of the judges: "For the most part, the Negro press has a long...
...Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...
Nonchalance. "Being a person of reticent nature, it is entirely foreign to me to expose for public scrutiny a segment of my life," he wrote the Herald. "Having been through all the torments of the damned in the past few weeks, I can now view with some degree of objectivity my own sorry failure ... I accepted the post with no thought of misappropriation. The first audit was sketchy . . . Subsequent audits found me in varying degrees of embarrassment, but since I was never pinned down, I became . . . amazingly nonchalant about the whole matter, believing, alas, the money would be easily replaced...
...staffs are weighted with well-meaning but often dull and routine people . . . When one visits the classrooms of these so-called teachers, he is impressed with the aimlessness of performance. The only apparent purpose the observer can discover is to fill the interval, from bell to bell, with another segment of the subject matter of the course which the student can and should acquire for himself...