Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack, whitewashing the walls, cutting new windows, building a porch. At dusk they had enough energy left to chase across the Georgia hills hunting...
Besides the main events, visitors watched an exhibition of sheepherding by three Border collies, trained by Luke Pasco, who, blind from five to ten, was led about his father's farm by a Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...
Inactive in competition since January 15, the Crimson five was far from top form Saturday night. If Fesler can whip the squad into condition by this week-end, Harvard should at least gain an even split in two games Friday and Saturday with Cornell and Columbia...
From the start A. F. of L.'s strategy against Lewis has been to split off C.I.O. unions, undermine him with his rank and file. Only real progress made in that direction has been to make David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, impatient of Lewis' failure to make peace (TIME...
...University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body of U. S. believers, from which they split in 1890, maintains a congregational form of government. Most notable of the schismatics is Raymond Pitcairn, who has made their fane the closest thing to a family cathedral in the world today. He donated much of the $14,000,000 it has cost; he dismissed its architects some years...