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...attack because the backs are all placed on one side of center. These wingback formations are very strong for reverses, spinners, and off tackle plays but the plays to the short side require much precise timing. With the running attack working, however, terrific pressure is exerted on every sector of the defensive alignments...
Harvard's 46 per cent for amending the Constitution actually places the college third in "progressive" sentiment to the Pacific Coast and the South. The latter was the only sector of the country in favor of an amendment. As opposed to the CRIMSON, New England put 72 per cent on the conservative side...
...comes up in Congress. It is this factor of non-partisanship which constitutes the strength of the movement as a political force. The Representative is definitely on the proverbial spot. If he refuses to play in with the Townsendites, he alienates a substantial, even a crucial sector of the electorate. For there is always the danger that his opponent will acquiesce and thereby gain the deciding margin of votes...
Rivers of ink spurted from Geneva last week as into action sprang charming Mme Geneviève Tabouis, brightest spirit among that sector of correspondents who feel that they can mold a better world by twisting every story to the advantage of the League of Nations. They felt with an honest, apostolic zeal that they must kill "The Deal" by which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and Premier Pierre Laval of France had undertaken to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris...
...kulaks lost their battle, were wiped out. At the height of Stakhanovite celebrations in Moscow, Dictator Stalin said grimly that in the Soviet transport sector, anti-Stakhanovites have had their teeth knocked, in and been booted from their jobs. He clearly indicated that he means to enforce speedups throughout Russia by the same methods of OGPU terror which have forced 85% of all Russian peasants who were not wiped out to join collective farms...