Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Springfield brings a record that is unimpressive. A season of ten games has been split, with five victories and five defeats. Rhode Island State, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut Agricultural Colleges have defeated the Springfield five, the last outfit winning twice. On the other hand the visitors have scored several creditable victories, notable among them those over Boston University, Middlebury and Boston Colege, the last-named being downed by a 36 to 22 score...
...flamboyant ceiling-piece of the banquet hall, on the terrace under the tremoloing stars, the company conversed. They spoke of man's relationship to the Absolute, of the art of Correggio, contraception, the difference between amour and amore, hypocrisy (it gangrenes gallantry), religion, cats. Little by little, they split off into pairs, these beautiful women, these men of genius. Irene became engaged to Hovenden despite his lack of dental fricatives; Calamy gave himself to Miss Thriplow and made her regret it; Mrs. Aldwinkle, rebuffed by Chelifer, went off to Monte Carlo...
...laid down. Its greater dimension extends from east to west. This pipe was sealed and the air exhausted. Mirrors were placed in the corners so that a beam of light would be reflected completely around it. In one corner an arc light was placed, the beams of which, split by mirrors, were reflected around the rectangle in opposite directions...
...great many potatoes have been grown since Martin Luther, hammer in hand, tacked his famed 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg, in 1517. In 400 years the Christian Church has been split a hundred different ways by apostasy. Sects have sprung up like mushrooms in the night; few have died...
...upward of a quarter of a century educators have realized that college life can be effectively organized and college traditions adequately inculcated only when the student body is split up into subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York...