Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assumed in Moscow that Commissar "Klim" had evidently split into two forces the single great Far Eastern Army previously commanded by Soviet Marshal Vasily Bluecher, who "disappeared" in the purge (TIME...
This sort of forthright reorganization is almost unprecedented in U. S. railroad history. Before Depression I railroads went through reorganization much as a snake sheds its skin, with bondholders forced to split the loss with stockholders and with railroads often left in just as bad a fix when the shedding was over. After the Federal Bankruptcy Act was amended in 1933 to give ICC power to supervise or rewrite reorganization plans and to allow roads to continue operating with their debts in a sort of suspended animation (Section 77), there came a complete cessation of reorganizations. For nearly five years...
...rained shells on the feeble Chinese shore defenses, and the flotilla chugged into the Bay. Troops began landing at 4:30 a.m. The next morning and under a rain of fire, throughout the day some 40,000 Japanese, their horses, supplies and heavy guns, were ferried ashore where they split into two columns. One headed north for Waichow, whence a highway leads into Canton, and by week's end its artillery and bombers had the city in flames. The other struck westward to cut the rail line between Canton and Hong Kong. Beating off scattered Chinese resistance, it reached...
Both Harvard cross-country squads have been victorious in their initial ventures this season, defeating B. U. by substantial margins. The New Hampshire Varsity has split in two encounters while the Big Green won its only tilt by vanquishing Vermont Saturday...
...name University City," says a bulletin issued by the Society, "has been unanimously selected." The society claims, numerous advantages accruing to the University by such a split, such as school children no longer using the Yard and cutting off traffic on the Larz Anderson Bridge...