Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contains additional lockers, a lecture room for the coaches, as well as coaches' living quarters, the third floor consists of one large room which is used for housing the team before games, or for taking care of visiting squads. The Field House is connected with the gymnasium by a split staircase, and is an essential addition to the athletic unit...
...hope is practically rendered impotent by the fundamental difficulty of religion,--the difficulty of determining a creed which will satisfy all conceptions of the Divine Power and Purpose. In this age of individuality, this difficulty is graver than ever before; and, in the past, church unity has always split on that rock of a universal creed...
...Boss" Brennan and the Democrats are jubilant over Mr. Magill's candidacy. They expect him to poll about 200,000 votes and cut heavily into Mr. Smith's downstate Dry strength. Thus, with the Republican Drys split and with Mr. Brennan looming in the Wet districts of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis, and Peoria, the Democratic camp has reached a peak of hopefulness...
...such negligible influence in government as now." And Editor Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped out many a Tennessee mountaineer, many a Chicago gangster, many a hone of political potentates. Puzzled citizens often wondered why two such potentates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen no longer wonders. Last week Dr. Charles A. Moore, acting chief of the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress, announced...
Paradoxically this even balancing of enemies is a factor of strength. The Chamber is similarly split between "Left" and "Right." Only through a "continuous compromise" by the leaders of these opposed groups, united in "Sacred Union," can the Parliamentary deadlock be broken...