Word: split
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four weeks' additional pay. After that, if there is any money left, it will be split...
...parties were to be split, Chairman Sandys soothingly explained, no new party formed. What was sought was a new political group, in which members could keep their party ties while pledging themselves to support: 1) a firmer, anti-dictator British foreign policy; 2) acceleration of British rearmament. Immediate goal, announced Mr. Sandys, was to enlist 100,000 members. To achieve this, the meeting officially titled its organization the Hundred Thousand, set up a recruiting office in London with the Duchess of Atholl as treasurer...
...long been overtly critical of the Prime Minister. Mr. Eden has been cautiously critical, on occasion abstaining rather than voting against Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Baldwin's opposition has been determined but never in the open. He and other anti-Chamberlain Conservatives realize that an open quarrel would split the party, pave the way for a return of the Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched some Hundred...
...team performance. Honors go to Dem Lloyd at center, whose sinking of a pass-out by Walt Whittaker from behind the net nullified an early Cambridge lead midway in the first stanza. It was the only assist of the game. After 37 seconds of the second period, Lloyd again split the Cambridge defense, and placed Harvard in the lead...
Less than a minute later, Ned Williamson, Queens, right wing veteran, split the Crimson defense on a solo dash and slipped a hard shot past Freedley into the corner of the net to conclude the scoring in the first period...