Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjugation to a dictatorship, it was the opinion of advisers to the throne that King George and Queen Mary were the perfect exemplars of British constitutional monarchy. . . . King Edward, however, has chosen to go his own way. . . . This has given rise to a considerable amount of bitterness and has split high society into two sections. . . . Mr. Simpson regards the friendship of his wife and the King as purely platonic...
...debate the Heimwehr leaders finally voted for Starhemberg, then with one accord backed him in expelling Fey, who has been Chancellor Schuschnigg's candidate to succeed Starhemberg. Locals of the Vienna Heimwehr, however, mutinously announced with a 17-to-4 vote that they still supported Fey, and the split in this private army widened rapidly. Cynical Austrians thought last week that Mussolini would now apportion his largesse in such fashion as to close the breach. Meanwhile Il Duce was more concerned with Austria's public army than with her private army, encouraged the Viennese Government to flout...
...usual Friday afternoon session" consists of work with the kickers first, followed generally by place kick drill. Then if the usual custom is maintained, the squad will be split into the A,B, and C teams to run signals, and perfect the handling and passing...
Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...Chamber of Commerce. The current number in the series describes management as the "nation's most important resource," managers as today's "forgotten men." Reads the copy: "Isn't it time to quit talking about this land of ours as if it were split into hard and fast classes, and to think of it for what it really is, the greatest spot on the globe, if not the only one. where classes do not really exist but all. under the direction of management, pull together for the greatest good for the greatest number...