Word: segments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inspired by a Lowell House petition, the Masters acted on behalf of what Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, called "a large segment of the community" who are disturbed by the noise...
...petition gained 170 signatures in a few hours, with Perkins' name leading the list. The Master commented that "no group is entitled to disturb a large segment of the community, for pleasure or for profit...
Splits in the distance medley were Jim Stack, 1:52.9 in the 1:52.9; Jay Luck, 48.4 in the 440; Tommy Carroll, 3:02.1 in the 1320; and Bobby Mack, 4:10.5 in the mile. Carroll also reeled off the 880 segment of the spring medley...
Kind Russian Eyes. The Soviet system has minimized personal publicity in the space field, but last week every segment of the state united to make Gagarin's achievement a personal triumph-ironically surrounding it with bourgeois trappings. Petitions were drawn up to rename a Moscow square after the cosmonaut. A glacier was given his name. An already prepared issue of a commemorative stamp began to roll off the presses. Reporters worked overtime to introduce him to his countrymen. One ebullient newsman described him as having "a kind Russian face, with eyes well separated." Another, who interviewed Gagarin soon after...
...segment of the capital gained the right to vote in 1846, when one-third of the District's land area, now Arlington County, was ceded back to Virginia...