Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was only one thing new on the Russian merry-go-round as it wheeled around to the same old tune: it had one rider less than before. The old East-West split of 53-to-6 had now become 54-10-5. The vagrant vote came from the grinning, youthful-looking Yugoslav delegates who sat in the row behind Vishinsky, seeming to rejoice in their freshly asserted break from Mother Russia...
...only thing that stopped them was rain, and that for only 24 hours. Next night, against a supposedly strong Boston College team, Halfback George Thomas ran the opening kick-off back for 95 yards and a touchdown. By game's end, Oklahoma's split-T formation had rolled up 358 yards on the ground and another 48 by passing. Final score: Oklahoma 46, Boston College...
...Protestantism alone to blame for the split between the two branches of Christendom? In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's Münster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt...
There was no "atomic secret." The basic fact that uranium atoms can be made to split in two, and release a massive jolt of energy, had been common scientific knowledge since 1939. The famed Smyth Report (A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes), which told how to go about making an atomic bomb was published by the U.S. War Department in August 1945. But even without the Smyth Report, U.S. scientists warned it was only a matter of time until some foreign nation, i.e., the U.S.S.R., would build a bomb...
...four-man panel split down the middle at Rindge Tech last night--two university professors defending and two prominent local politicians opposing the right of Communists to teach in American schools. The discussion launched the current season of the Law School Forum...