Word: segments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent a new war from being carried into the South German Basin or to the western end of the Baltic Plain the Nazis have built the Siegfried-or Limes-line. At its vital segment (between the Lorraine Gateway and Luxemburg) where the French might penetrate into the German concentration areas on the Rhine, this "line" is not a mere chain of forts, but a network organized in depth. A year ago the French might have crossed the Rhine; now the chances for carrying...
...germ cells are eight narrow little blobs called chromosomes. On these Morgan tracked down the positions of hundreds of invisible genes (heredity transmitters) each of which seemed to control a single body characteristic-such as eye color, chest bristles, wing shape-in the offspring. When a segment of a chromosome broke off during reproduction, all the features controlled by the genes on that segment were affected...
...productive capacity in 1920-29, the Five-Year Plans represented a greater rate of increase. They doubled Russia's industrial stature, made her an industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays, confusions, led to experiments in management, industrial shock troopers...
...different terms they state the causes of international conflict-as rivalry between the Haves and the Havenots, between the countries struggling to keep what they have and the countries struggling to expand. Or they see it as the clash of rival ideologies or of rival imperialists, with a vast segment of the world looking to Great Britain to maintain order while protecting her remote dominions, and another segment threatening to block her channels of communication with them. Or they see it as a problem of overpopulation in the crowded centres of the world, the masses of Europe and Japan swelling...
...organized labor and named William Morris Leiserson, 56, Chairman of the National Railroad Mediation Board, to the National Labor Relations Board succeeding Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania, a recess appointee who is persons non grata with the powerful American Federation of Labor and is in disfavor with a large segment of Congress...