Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cinema films, "shot" from a platform near the ring, were expected to settle the positive contentions of three schools of thought which sprang up from the split-second observations of many men and their emotional memories. But when the films were shown, Dempsey's back was found squarely blocking from view the disputed action of his right fist in the seventh round. The schools of contention all thrived and the films were virtually tripled in value. Every cinema spectator could still be his own referee on the thrust which men held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high...
...Cosgrave's purpose was to force the split factions of famed Eamonn de Valera and Miss Mary MacSwiney to join forces and enter the Dail. This they have refused to do, alleging their unwillingness to take the oath of fealty to George V, required of every deputy before he can legally take his seat. At present Mr. De Valera stands at the head of 44 Fianna Fail or "Republican" deputies; and Miss MacSwiney is one of six deputies comprising the much blighted and withered Sinn Fein party to which De Valera formerly belonged. Thus, these 50 deputies if they...
...perform exactly this function; unfortunately, however, it received altogether too much water so that the later stages of the flood were along the Atchafalaya, not along the Mississippi. If, however, its levee system were strengthened and if additional spillways were constructed at other strategic points, another flood, split into many sections, might well remain under control. The spillway system has long been advocated by the people of Louisiana, especially of New Orleans...
...reporters may have been surprised to hear Miss Williams speak not bitterly but with rare discernment about the Chinese situation. She kept clear, as many have not, the distinction between the Conservative and Communist wings (now split apart) of the Chinese Nationalist party. It was a Communist Nationalist soldier fighting under the Conservative Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek (before the split) who shot Dr. Williams. Miss Williams showed that she does not hold the Conservative general blamable, but rather looks to the Conservative Nationalist regime which he, Chiang Kaishek, has set up at Nanking, as the salvation of China...
...upper end of this tube was split into two branches?one supplying Mr. Beebe with air, the other connecting with a delicate telephone receiver. Thus, Mr. Beebe utilized the column of air which kept him alive, to transmit the sound waves of his voice to an amanuensis at the sea's surface. The device was contrived by Dr. Mark Barr, English physicist, who accompanied the expedition...