Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hosmer, Yale '25: "Harvard is too split up. There should be a central campus and less individuality in the place...
...mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen out of some political cartoon, was the hardest worker. "The intensity of John Brown of Ossawatomie and the shrewdness of Vidocq, the French detective," were...
...Split Quantum. One theory of matter is the quantum theory? that all things, all radiations are built up of quanta, or trifling pulsations of energy. Light is thus considered the effect of many quanta popping after one another. Dr. A. J. Dempter of the University of Chicago told how he had directed the light from a single vibrating atom at a thinly silvered mirror. In theory a single file of quanta battered at the mirror. Part of these reflected away, part passed through, just as would ordinary light. Possibly, thought Dr. Dempter, the quantum, smallest theoretical unit, was split into...
...miles every month looking for jobs. I haven't been able to find a job lately; and Mr. Blake's $10 would mean a lot. I am really very, very active. I am sure I could win. Will you tell Mr. Epstein? Tell him I will even split the winning with him; but I cannot split the loss...
...putting over the gags pretty well, and this woman was roaring and screaming up there, I said to Marilyn. By goash! I'll kill off that old fatty" So I kept it an and fussed around with my hands and feet, and she'd split for sure. Then after the show when the spot man was down backstage, he came around and said. Hey Jack did you hear that woman upstairs? 'Oh yes' I said, kinds modest, you know, because I didn't want to seem stuck-up over my line. "Well you know what it was about...