Word: section
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...conventionally educated New Englander the conception of a recent continental ice-sheet is familiar. This is supposed to have originated in the southwestern section of the Labrador Peninsula and to have swept south to Nova Scotia. Cape Cod, Long Island, northern Pennsylvania, and the Ohio valley; and recent studies, especially by Antevs, indicate that the front of this sheet began to rot approximately 25,000 years ago. As a natural outgrowth of this everyday conception, we are inclined to infer that all the region south of the entire Labrador Peninsula was similarly crossed and denuded by the last or Wisconsin...
...southern campaign was the weather. Dense fog, icy roads kept many from her meetings in Mattoon After, leaving a tiny audience at Olney, she found that the flooding Wabash had made her motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...
...that seems to be the difficulty--proper legislation--and also seems to be the only excuse for the existence of such societies as the Watch and Ward. An interesting development of this latest discussion is the fact that the book censorship law, and particularly that section now under fire, dates back to almost half a century before the Revolutionary War. Thus indeed are the sins of the Puritan Fathers visited even unto the seventh generation...
...boss, is increasing. Lamont and Mellon hold Cabinet posts, Dawes goes to London: Young and Morgan put Germany on a paying basis. On the committee, composed to stabilize business after the Wall Street debacle, are men all with a practical insight into the social and economic aspects affecting every section of the country. Experts as well in deed as theory control the destinies of agriculture and industry...
...public utility Mother Goose book might include a section about the holding company that held the holding company that held the holding company that held the operating company that lighted the lights in the house that Jack built. For utility systems are complicated, full of little units with big units upon their backs to finance them. Last week, however, Commonwealth & Southern Corp., one of the largest of U. S. super-holding companies, announced a marked simplification of its associated companies. The result of this simplification will be the disappearance of four holding companies in the Commonwealth & Southern system...