Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question may well be asked: Why all this stage setting? There are two reasons. His partisans look to the square-built man from California, the high priest of all irreconcilables, as their great leader in the next campaign. Mr. Johnson was one of those who, with Roosevelt, split the Republican ranks in 1912. (Johnson was nominated for Vice President by the Progressives in that year.) Again, the Californian is regarded as a leader for the dissenters within the Republican party?not the radical La Follettonian dissenters, but the conservative, League-abhorring, strict-isolationist group. Those who want such a leader...
...with thrills a plenty-jumps from appreciable heights and minor injuries. On that date the Army and Navy still had six craft in the air. By July 6 all but three had come down, Ralph Upson piloting the Detroit having had the most dangerous experience, when his gas bag split at 5,800 feet and a descent had to be made in the basket, supported by a parachute. Lieutenant Robert Olmstead, in charge of an Army balloon, landed in New York State with apparently the best record of 500 miles...
...view of the general uncertainty of the situation, it can only be said that China is split into a great and a small camp; the one representing the Tuchuns (War Lords) and the other composed of the most enlightened men of China. Briefly, the struggle is between oriental and occidental methods of government...
Honors for individual brilliance were split by MacDonald Smith and Joe Kirkwood, who broke the course record with 69's the second morning. Gene Sarazen, American open champion, played himself out of the tournament by a single stroke in the qualifying rounds...
...world by capturing foreigners last month, the Diplomatic Corps in Peking did some plain speaking to the Government. Individual members of the Cabinet took it upon themselves to please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...