Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kisling) to attenuated, nihilistic preciosity (Boîte-en-Valise, an "object" by Marcel Duchamp). Between these bypaths lay a two-lane highway of abstraction and surrealism. Outstanding was 44-year-old French Surrealist Yves Tanguy's Un Lieu Oblique (An Oblique Place), a meticulous composition suggesting a segment of interstellar space strewn with broken propeller parts, spilt putty, the detached, heraldic bowsprits of unicorns...
...form the third and final segment of the Class of '48, will receive their indoctrination into the complexities of Harvard life this weekend in a series of receptions, tests, and lectures...
...Tennessee Valley Authority Act was passed almost 12 years ago, and at the time and for a number of years thereafter it was harshly criticized by a considerable segment of the population. Lilienthal now finds it hard to get accustomed to a tremendous change in public opinion, even in the conservative press, and remarked that he is used "to being patted on the back with a foot...
...fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy...
Political Keystone. Thus, around a Russian-guided center, a new Germany might well take shaped Like the new Poland, it would be friendly to Russia. And it would be the most important segment in a cordon sanitaire-in-reverse, the political keystone of the key continent. The Russians chipped and chiseled at this keystone long before World War II. But they lacked the proper tools until their great victory at Stalingrad...