Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confusing to the minds of many was the $300,000 lease brokerage fee paid jointly to Benjamin L. Winchell of St. Louis and Samuel Pryor of Manhattan. Mr. Pryor put his $150,000 split into the Owenoke Corporation, of which he, Percy Rockefeller and Frederick B. Adams are equal partners, to complete (according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof. The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr. Pryor's brokerage fee. "But only in a sense," hearers of the admission were good enough...
...last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round in a circle, her rudder jammed hard over. George Wood caught a rope dragging from her, climbed aboard, cut the spark...
There will be a definite split in the Freshman squad on the strength of this afternoon's trials. The first three or four men in each even will be put on the first squad and will practice regularly in the Stadium with the University runners...
...rich men, so many poor men; so many "prep-school" men and so many men from public school; so many Northerners, Southerners, Westerners. As if this leveling were not sufficient, the "aristocratic" upper-class eating clubs were to be abolished. That was the rock on which he split. Bad as is the club or fraternity system in all American universities--with its overemphasized and largely unjust distinction between the ins and the outs the great body of graduates knew that it was more wisely controlled at Princeton then elsewhere and that at worst it was a time-honored institution...
...unwieldiness, of dispersion, of separation and hopeless unacquaintance on the part of the great body of students. Harvard, in its present condition, cannot be a unit. It is too large to accomplish one of its main purposes. The plan of the committee of the Student Council is to split the upper class students (the Freshman, by that time, being all required to live in college dormitories) into six residential units, each having its common room and dining hall--the whole purpose being to supply an opportunity for social intercourse and a sort of integration which would go beyond the social...