Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday the election was all Nichols. For a time it seemed that Glynn, the candidate of the Curley faction, and O'Neil, the regular Democratic nominee, might give him a close run. But the Irish vote was badly split, while Cook and McGauley and Burrill, Republicans running to take votes from Nichols, received almost no support at the polls Mr. Nichols received 64,484 votes, with Glynn, his nearest opponent, gathering only 42,696 votes...
...that he had perfected a set of mirror-scales capable of weighing, distinctly and faithfully, down to one 280-billionth of an ounce. Gossamer quartz filaments balance the scales, the slightest titillation of which is reflected from their gold-mirrored surfaces by a ray of light. The ray is split by two half-mirrors, being reunited on the scale-mirrors, where any disparity between the wavelengths of the reunited portions is clearly seen as shadow bands. Thus, when the object weighed (1/29,000 oz. of quartz filament) is lightened by the pull of sun or moon, the scale tips...
...such a record is, its closing chapters show a much greener hue. Two of the four Dartmouth victories have been scored in the past two years, and in the three games that have been played between the two Universities since the resumption of play after the ten year split that began in 1912, the Crimson can boast but one green scalp, that from the tomahawk of Owen in 1922. Both verdicts since then have gone to the invaders...
Since these two diverse views indicated something like a split in the Caillaux Commission, the dictum of M. Henri Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber, upon the whole matter was marked well. Said he: "It was absurd to send a whole committee to America. One man could have done better. . . . I shall vote against this temporary agreement because it is a mere effort to gain time . . . . Parliament problems which can be put off, and if a five year limit is set on the debt question you can be sure Parliament will take four years...
...English trio will remain in Boston until October 20. On that date they will oppose Wellesley in the eighth debate of the trip. Following this debate, the Britishers will journey to New Haven where Yale is to join them in a "split debate" on the intriguing subject. "Resolved. That ignorance is bliss...