Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babbitts blew horns. Whistles split ears. Skyrockets hissed. Thud-bombs thudded. And bevies of Joliettes screamed for joy? all because the Joliet high school band had won for the third time, and obtained final possession of the Class A cup offered by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music...
...times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more incidentally, they made it possible for "scientific investigators" to earn a living as such. The various branches of science are no longer a vocation; they are split into a diversity of professions. This was inevitable. A merely ordinary intelligence can use the technique which only a fine scientific mind could have devised. The main differences will be seen in the theorizing and the application...
...their recent trip to Rye, New York, the Crimson golfers won one match and lost two. On Friday they bowed to the Georgetown forces by a 7 to 2 score, while on Saturday they split even, beating Pennsylvania easily 8 to 1 in the morning but losing to Princeton 6 to 3 in the afternoon. The results of the trip bring the totals of the season to date to four victories and two defeats...
According to the plans announced by the Harvard Democratic Club, the convention will be conducted under the same rules that govern the procedure of the Democratic national convention, the audience being split into delegations from the various states with a chairman leading each one. Measures are now being taken to prevent a preponderance of Eastern delegates at the expense of those from the West; it is planned that state representation should be approximately equal...
There was always a trick in Houdini's more startling performances, something like a false bottom or a split ring. It seemed perfectly legitimate, because the public goes to see a contortionist to be amusingly deceived. There was a trick in the Littleton release of Sinclair, too, only when the verdict was announced, the public did not seem amused...