Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although Seabiscuit was leading money winner of 1937 with $168,580, turfmen split on choosing the Horse of the Year. The magazine Horse & Horseman gave the honor to Seabiscuit on the recommendation of 25 leading turfmen. The Turf and Sport Digest polled 256 U. S. sportswriters, decided the honor should go to War Admiral, undefeated in eight starts...
...Skiers Split Into Groups...
Skiers this winter will be split into separate instruction groups of ten according to ability. Methods of selection and of advancement from group to group will be similar to those used by the Arlberg School, Sidney Cobb '39, manager of the team, explained yesterday...
...public trial of Tomsky in the familiar Moscow style would have split proletarian opinion irretrievably, and his suicide smoothed the ground upon which was negotiated in six days last week the affiliation with Iftu of the Soviet Trade Unions...
...distinction from the feudal period to the totalitarian state, with a vast display of scholarship, innumerable quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion of all Dr. Vagts...