Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substance called bios (life) was discovered 20 years ago by a Belgian professor at Louvain University, but Dr. Miller, in experimenting on yeast, found that minute quantities of this substance greatly stimulated the growth of cells. In attempting to extract it from wort, he found that it could be split into the two new compounds...
...announced his discovery of Zeta rays, described his original work with isotopes, or elements having the same chemical structure but different atomic weights. Another American, Professor McCoy of Chicago, first discovered that chlorine, mercury and zinc are not unitary elements, but can be separated into isotopes. Dr. Harkins has split all three of them into their components, obtaining his most successful results by the use of liquid air, which is too costly to use for laboratory purposes...
...enemy at Irolo without important effect. General Obregon took over supreme command of the Army and bent all his energies in pushing forward to Vera Cruz. The first big clash occurred at San Marcos and resulted in a defeat for the rebels, who were forced to retire. This split the two rebel armies into two corps of about 6,000 men each; the San Marcos corps retiring to Orizaba, while the other of about the same strength held Puebla, the second largest town in possession of the rebels...
...Massachusetts primaries, and he "welcomed" the news that Coolidge would run against him in the California primaries. He is prepared to make a red-hot fight against the Administration forces. They are willing to fight him-but not quite so bitterly, because they do not care to split the party "wide open...
...Senator Smith to Senator Cummins simply because it seemed to me that the Democratic members of the Senate had arrived at a point in the deadlock at which they were merely playing into the hands of the La Follette Magnus Johnson Brookhart radical element. ... I decided that the inevitable split between the conservative and radical members of the Senate had come, and that it was time for me to obey my profoundest instincts and convictions and to part company for a time with other Democratic Senators. ... As far as I am concerned, it might as well be understood...