Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the money it needed: $50,000 in a drive for $140,000. The season had been called off. Unlike the others, Portland's musicians were ready to play at any price. Their solution: 1) the society would use $3,000 for expenses, 2) the musicians would split the box-office receipts, whatever they might turn...
...done to save America's most important ally. What worried the U.S. as much as the prospect of Britain going bankrupt was the possibility that, in an effort to stave off bankruptcy, the British might withdraw into a tight autarchic sterling bloc which would in effect split the West...
...were left in the mountain strongholds of Vitsi and Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting the main push. Five days later the government's main forces struck at Vitsi, split the Communist positions and cut off their westward retreat routes to Albania...
Unjustifiable Attacks. Haldane also criticizes the logic of Lysenko's followers: "We do not cease to believe in atoms," he writes, "because they can be split. Nor need we cease to believe in genes because they can be changed...
Anybody Got a Commodity? It is on this split between the active but lowbrow man-in-the-street and the wrangling but ineffectual man-of-intellect that Author McCarthy spins her tale. In McCarthy's fable, the incidents of everyday life on the mountaintop soon show that the split is in fact a bridgeless gulf, and Utopia itself a creation without foundations-doomed not so much by "history" as by the colonists' inability to produce "a commodity more tangible than morality" and hopeful...