Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standing by the window in a fifth-grade classroom upstairs was John Nelson's brother Don, a 24-year-old oil worker who was watching over his mother's class of 25 youngsters. He heard a loud noise. Plaster started falling. He thought for a split second of the window. Then two or three of the children started running toward him. He herded them out into the open fast. Out in the schoolyard, Don Nelson saw the ground littered with bodies. Two men ran up to him and they crawled back into the ruins together. A heavy bookcase...
...supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through the fog-is done with glass on a split screen. The collision itself is a miniature. The hysteria at the lifeboats, the singing of Nearer, My God, To Thee were made on a life-scale ship...
...grey felt hat, the object of our little one's mocking attention, was twice too big and smacked of not very post post-war days. As he approached her ambush, she set herself; then with the rapidity of a lion cub, she rose and struck; but, alas--a split second too late. The hat remained solemnly intact. "Damn it!" she howled, her pretty little eyes gleaming. "I missed...
...bastards." In the next few years the Outside closed in savagely. Stirpiculture seemed to the Community's neighbors no better than turpitude. In 1879, when Noyes was 9, his father fled to Canada to escape the clergy's clamor for his hide. His successor managed badly, quarrels split the Community, and shortly afterward Leader Noyes proclaimed from Canada a New Stirpicultural Policy: get married. Secularism, thus unleashed, ran its course...
Following the stockholders' meeting fortnight ago Walgreen directors voted a 50% stock dividend on common-with the current $2 dividend rate to continue. Previous stock dividends: 1921 (100%); 1922 (8%); 1923 (split ten for one); 1923 (16%); 1924 (16%); 1925 (16%); 1927 (split ten for one); 1934 (5%). Drugman Walgreen & family own nearly one-fourth of the common stock. Says Charles Walgreen: "There are no fixed rules for business success. I was not possessed with a vision that permitted me to foresee the developments that followed. It just happened...