Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilcox's chance of getting the nomination, much less the election, is not too bright. Francis E. McGovern, a former Governor, and another regular, has announced his intention of running for the nomination likewise in spite of the convention's action. This should split the regular Republican vote, which is none too strong as compared to the Progressive Republican vote...
...Plato and early historians as lying outside the Pillars of Herculles (Gibralter) extending far westward, well populated and highly civilized as late as 9558 B.C. From the appearance of lava dredged by cable-layers, some scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), that it was split in two volcanically. the eastern half submerging, peaks of the western half (Antilia) remaining today as the Antilles (West Indies). Alleged cranial similarities between natives of Venezuela and Canary Islanders, also between fossil flors and fauna of France and the U.S., constitute other "evidence...
...factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience and intelligence a man puts into an examination of these questions, the less likely is he to "go along" with his colleagues. A report with split conclusions recently went to the President because the production costs in the chief competing foreign country were limited to the single factory that would permit inspection of its cost sheets...
...tendency of a graduated income tax would be to split up large corporations into a great number of small corporations, the economic effect of which would be undesirable." Various recent suggestions for tax reduction include those...
...Significance. Channeled and sped by a masterful artist, the intense lives of Leah and Eli deepen into profound currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...