Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union policy the two groups are clearly split on two major points. Whereas the Martin group is planning a big push on Henry Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have...
...merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the galleryite: both in-tend to jar your emotions. A fiction writer, to stir your guts, will split any infinitive that gets in the way. A painter, for the same reason, may draw his horizon line perpendicular, and scatter vanishing points like confetti...
Under very different auspices the 75th Congress reconvened in a Special Session last week, ostensibly to enact the ambitious program outlined by the President in his fireside chat six weeks ago. New Deal ranks in Congress, split by the fight over Franklin Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last winter, were still sharply divided. The President's popularity, despite his triumphal tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major...
...from adrenal glands and plants and later identified this acid with Vitamin C (TIME Nov. 8). Szent-Györgyi's long researches on carbohydrate metabolism and oxidation also counted with the committeemen, but that they were largely preoccupied with Vitamin C this year was shown when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index's point was that a shy, soft-spoken U. S. chemist, Dr. Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh, was the first...
...Church of the Plymouth Brethren has repeatedly split over the question of baptism: whether it should be in running water or calm, forward or backward, with one plunge or three...