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Word: splits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwilling to split hairs with Mr. Ickes, but he persists in abusing facts so as to connect me falsely with power monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...exhibit) will pan out is General Motors' worry. Grover Whalen sold it to them. The same may be said for many another individual display. Several industries, such as railroads, glass,* aviation, utilities and petroleum, recognizing the fact, got together on cooperative exhibits where the heavy cost is split and individual trademarks are played down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Dateline: Europe he adds a split to the already dual personality of Rosten and Ross, in a glib, neatly joined short novel about a foreign correspondent. Laid in Belgovenia, it covers the adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree, is neither standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Taking the final doubles match, the Yardling netmen opened their season with a five to four victory over the Andover squad at Cambridge Saturday. The six singles matches were split, but the Freshmen captured two of the doubles contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Netmen Win | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Princeton's Varsity baseballers split even in a six-game vacation campaign, and for this reason more than anything else they deserve to be regarded as a threat in the Eastern Intercollegiate pennant quest. They took their last three spring trip tilts but since then have bowed to Fordham and Navy...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Yale, Princeton Appear Strong As EIL Loop Gets Under Way | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

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