Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vessel, called the Nuova Italia (New Italy), is not an Italian boat, but was taken from the Germans. Literary, artistic and historic works outweigh all other subjects, only a small section being devoted to industry and commerce...
Accordingly, Senator Capper decided to amend his bill by striking out the passage which is " unnecessarily offending to the Negro population." Many states have laws against miscegenation, and the Senator regards the provision as an unnecessary troublemaker. The withdrawal of this section by the Senator is made easier because he himself did not write the bill. It was drawn by the attorney of the American Federation of Women's Clubs...
...Aegean through foreign territory. "The Bulgarian people appeal to the Powers to carry out their one promise to Bulgaria!" Premier Zankov's words referred to the recent Greek agreement with the Turks at Lausanne, whereby Karagatch, railway junction immediately south of Adrianople, and the Karagatch-Luli Burgas railway section was transferred to Turkey. Thus Bulgaria is dependent on Greece and Turkey instead of on Greece for a trade route to the Aegean...
...Story. A Hindu of Brahmin parentage, born and brought up in a small village near Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account of a certain section of Indian life-something of which even the cleverest of Occidental writers have been able to describe no more than the externals. " An intricate and age-old pattern of life, from sudden sunrise through fervid noon to the heavy fall of night and silence...
...gear is a section of cased shafting, turned by a 5-horsepower motor. The driving end was speeded up to 17,000 revolutions per minute, while the other end of the shaft was making only five revolutions an hour. It has lifted 12 tons and has not reached its limit. The gear has no cogwheels nor even teeth, but turns on ball bearings between rollers of various diameters, slightly off center. The difference in diameters establishes the rate of reduction in speed and increase of power...