Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds for half the cost...
Owen stated that the experiment "worked out very well," and that the students involved had registered no complaints. He said that one of the great advantages of holding section meetings in the Houses is to give students the opportunity to discuss the course after leaving the classroom...
Kirkland House may start its own House section program next year, according to Master Charles H. Taylor. He indicated that Government 1, Economics 1, and Social Sciences 1 are under consideration for Kirkland sections. He added, however, that the chances for initiation of the program by Fall were "less than 50 percent...
Taylor noted that, in a survey of opinion conducted by one Kirkland tutor, several students had expressed misgivings about the program. The main objections were that students might lose the benefit of having a separate tutor and section man, and would become isolated from students in different Houses...
When World War II interrupted his scholarship, Professor Hanfmann was in the office of War Information. "My job was to control our dear writers to see that they didn't all go off in different directions. In London, I was chief of the German Language Section, and it was interesting work. We had to plan radio shows for broadcast to the Germans. Our Prisoner of War shows had a certain effect, I think, near the end when things were going badly for them...