Word: segmenting
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...knitting, Chairwoman Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy, a motherly soul who is president of the Needlework Guild of America and whose husband used to run Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit, took up a pencil and rapped on a table for order. Her signal got the attention of a potent segment of the nation's womanpower...
...silver sold at $1.15 per oz. Today it is 27¾ per oz. To up its value is the aim of a noisy segment of political Washington, representing States with silver mines or interested in Chinese trade. Such upping would be effected by tying silver to gold (the old 16-to-1 Bryanism which few seriously espouse), or by international agreement to buy silver for coinage and not to sell it below a fixed price...
...design for the Neva bridge, and Joseph Urban was one of the eight foreign architects invited to submit designs for the preat Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. The red plaster model of his project was the focal point of last week's exhibition. It embraced a huge segment-shaped auditorium to seat 25,000 people and allow whole regiments to march across its stage, offices, libraries, and a combined auditorium and theatre to serve the All Union Congress...
Poet Shostac has less to say about Manhattan's 14th St. than about himself. He writes this segment of autobiography in unrhymed, uneven lines that read well and easily. Not particularly quotable, never reaching a high poetic plane, never distinguishing between the vocabulary of poetry & prose, his novel in verse has considerable cumulative effect...
...held at Yale, Brown, Rutgers, and Williams, the poll which is being carried on this week through the cooperation of other college papers with the CRIMSON should give the lawmakers of the land a definite and true sample of what will constitute within the next few years an important segment of the American electorate...