Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brown paper and string, showed itself ready & willing to make a neat bundle: itself, the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. (Southern) and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church...
...homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...
Distinctive national insignia for fighting planes were originated early in the World War so that in the split-second action of aerial dogfights pilots could quickly identify friendly planes, would fire on none by mistake. After the War their use soon spread to all the world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms...
Last week they had their revenge. March business had dropped back to the August rate and the "outside" copper dealers, feeling the pinch, let the price down to 10¼?. The big producers, however, refused to follow, preferring to keep the price split, since the independents do not have the capacity to handle much business. Finally, early in April, American Smelting & Refining cut its product to 10¼?, halfway between the independents and the other big producers, forcing the big producers to follow them down...
Against Williams in an anti-climax afternoon tilt, the Crimson split the singles engagements as Graves preserved his season's undefeated status, but two of the three best-balls were lost. On Friday the team played the best golf of the weekend in trouncing Holy Cross...