Word: section
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week Pullman Co. announced a plan to help compensate itself for the loss of a million and a half berth passengers On May 1 it will reduce its rates 22% on sections (upper and lower berths combined). It hopes single passengers, to get privacy by day, air and space by night, will buy sections instead of lowers, thus supply revenue from otherwise empty profitless uppers. Present section rate New York-Chicago: $16.20. New section rate...
...first character on the stage, a Stevens undergraduate, depicted a Neanderthal type of man. He loped apelike across the stage on naked 20th Century legs. He was awed by the forces of Nature until he discovered weapons, tools. Toward the end of this section "Control," a child, appeared to befriend the undergraduate. "Control" then stepped gingerly to the front of the stage and delivered himself of a speech to the effect that without tools man is nothing, with them he is everything...
...Section Two, "The Age of Steam," showed man in a somewhat better light. The audience beheld the emergence of the mechanical engineer and some of his inventions. Toward the end this act took on the gala aspect of a football game as a parade of students appeared bearing banners with the names of various engineering schools. After a short stretch showing how the society was founded "Control," now almost full grown, again popped to the front of the stage, said: ". . . Engineering . . . has been one of the means . . . by which civilization has advanced...
...Third Section, "The Age of Electricity," was introduced with a flashing of lights. Then came a display of inventions. Then "Control," now a lusty, up and coming young man, stepped once more to the front of the stage to say: "I am the engineer. . . . I control, I convert. I do not create...
...Says Section 211 of the U. S. Penal Code: "Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious, and every filthy book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character ... is hereby declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails. . . ." In April, 1929, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett was convicted in a Brooklyn Federal court under this statute. She had written and sent through the mails a pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. Last month her conviction was reversed in the Appellate Division, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In this book she gives...