Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adds a pint. Ordinary people use only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
Last week, at dinner in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the Christian Herald award was given to a layman: Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, chairman of the U. S. section of the World Alliance for International Friendship, ardent Prohibitionist. Said the Association: "You have been chosen because the Christian Church for more than 40 years has had in you a demonstration of what can be wrought by a layman who is wholly given to the purposes of Christ." Moderator Smith, Mrs. Smith (his second) will sail for Palestine Feb. 16 on S. S. Calgarie...
This purely mechanical feature may tend to thwart one of the fundamental purposes of the House Plan; it is apt to preclude any real possibility of a cross-section of University life...
...Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
...Brooklyn, Mrs. Ella E. Morris rented rooms in a house located in a section supposedly restricted to one-family dwellings. Neighbors complained that Mrs. Morris was cheapening the neighborhood, took court action. Mrs. Morris retaliated with a large sign posted on the front of her house: "FOR SALE OR FOR RENT TO COLORED PEOPLE ONLY...