Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Douglas Cockroft and E. T. S. Walton performed the first artificial nuclear disintegrations. Using protons (hydrogen nuclei) speeded up in a high-voltage combination of transformers, rectifiers and condensers, Cockroft and his co-worker split lithium atoms, created helium...
Traditionalist Edward Koch and Modernist Edward D. Stone split the honors in their designs for the Ramsey family of Atlanta (income $2,000 to $3,000), Mr. Koch providing a house with charm and Mr. Stone venturing one with imagination...
...Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall; Secretary-Treasurer George Addes) and suspended a fifth (Vice President Walter Wells), Mr. Martin was faced by the unpleasant discovery that a majority of U. A. W.'s 375,000 claimed members supported the punished five. U. A. W. was ready to split in two. A sample of how costly jurisdictional strikes could prove in the automobile industry at the start of the 1939 production season was meanwhile provided in Detroit: soon after workers struck in Briggs Manufacturing Co. (against "speedup"), 7,000 employes in Chrysler's Plymouth division...
Because the successful offensive last spring of Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco split Leftist Spain into two parts, mail has since been carried between Valencia and Barcelona chiefly by submarine. Last week in the U. S. arrived copies of the issue of one, two, six and ten peseta "submarine stamps" (see cut), all illustrated with submarines, by which the Leftists have commemorated the fact of their physical division...
...concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall, and, in a split second, return it so that it will be in a difficult position for the opposing player (or players) to catch. Points are scored in the same manner as tennis or handball. Winning score varies from seven points (singles) to 25 points (doubles...