Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bert Haines yesterday afternoon put their upper yearling crews through a series of four races. Owing to the heavy weather prevailing in the basin, it was decided to lay the course over the half-mile stretch near the Stadium, and in conformance with the narrower width the eights were split up in to groups...
...lowered into the cellar and a fresh setting let down from above. This eliminates the difficulties and expense of the scene shifting in a play with many scenes. In addition to this advantage, the hydraulic stage enables the producer to et unusual scenic effects; for the upper stage is split into sections which may be lowered one at a time. The result is that rides or cliffs can be created with very little additional time in scene shifting...
...unexpected discovery, however; the work of Sir Ernest Rutherford, Dr. F. W. Aston and others has paved the way for its ready acceptance. Uranium, thorium and radium split up of their own accord. Moreover, many astrophysicists have long believed that the sudden appearance of vast quantities of hydrogen and helium in new stars might be due to an elemental cataclysm of this kind on a gigantic scale...
...widespread practice among industrial organizations today to employ spies to "cultivate" the officers of labor unions, to try to obtain important offices in unions, and, when a strike threatens, to split the unions into factions and otherwise incapacitate them for action. Aside from the ethics of the matter Dr. Cabot showed that people were coming to realize that such espionage is poor business policy, since it is almost certain to be found out, and to cause bitterness and hatred...
...popular has basketball proved this winter that it was found necessary to split the squad of 50 players into two divisions. This system has proved most satisfactory, the two tournaments working entirely independently of each other and credit towards the shield being counted for both teams. In section one Standish again, by scoring four wins to only one set-back, has clinched the title for top place to date. Gore has improved its position materially since the mid-year standing was announced, and now holds second, with Smith following a poor third. Gore leads the second section with a record...