Word: splits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will TIME'S expression: "dry as a cactus" hold water? Desert travelers sometimes split a barrel cactus in half, squeeze the pulp through a cloth, get a cup of sweetish water. The giant cactus, a mass of pulp held together by fibrous ribs, absorbs water on rainy days and swells out like a toad. Woodpeckers drill holes in the trunk, occupy them...
...North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast Texas. The Hoover-Smith ratio of popular votes, 17 to 12, was smaller than the Harding-Cox (16 to 9) or the Coolidge-Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split the Republican Party within itself during the next four years, the re-election of 1932 might as well be a perfunctory one-party affair, to save public bother and private expense. With a Republican Congress, an efficient nationwide party organization, good times and peaceful problems to start his record...
Prohibition-Here a split. Wet Republicans insisted that they hoped to see "the experiment noble in motive" worked out "constructively" by Hoover and that "constructively" would mean "liberally," i.e., modification. Dry Republicans approved the words of Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League of America, whose election proclamation...
...with the Mond company's assets of $40,000,000, the new international nickel trust would be worth between $115,000,000 and $125,000,000. It would control all but a small fraction of the nickel supply of the world. To close the deal, speculators foresaw a split-up of International Nickel common stock, followed by an exchange of both International and Mond stock for shares in the new trust. Trading in securities of both companies, the Toronto Stock Exchange went through the busiest day in its history...
...November 2 a team will be sent to Newark, New Jersey, to debate with the New Jersey Law School team on the same topic. However, the teams will be split, two Harvard men taking the negative stand with one of the Law students, while the other Harvard man debates on the affirmative side with two New Jersey...