Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faintly as Premier Sun Fo last week rose to speak before China's Legislative Yuan in Nanking. There was only scattered applause. When Sun announced he would resign the applause was much louder. Most of the lawmakers had already decided that Sun Fo and his cabinet, who had split Acting President Li Tsung-jen's government by setting up shop in Canton, were delaying peace with the Communists...
...continuation of their disagreement last December before the Joint Congressional Committee investigating industrial profits, the two economists split over the advisability of employing heavier taxation to limit corporate profits...
...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. utilized atomic energy to lay the two-ton cornerstone of its new building in Manhattan; a miniature nuclear reactor split ten U-235 atoms generating an electrical impulse which burned a ceremonial ribbon, touched off a magnesium flare and caused a chain hoist to lower the stone one foot into position...
Helped by the police, the army officers rummaged endlessly through Calhoun's luggage, even split open the linings of his bags. Then they searched his pockets. When they found the newspaper clippings, they smiled in triumph. The clippings were from the Havana weekly Bohemia. Among them was an article by Andres Eloy Blanco, Foreign Minister in the ousted Gallegos regime. It described an exchange of letters between Harry Truman and Gallegos on U.S. recognition of the military junta that overthrew Gallegos. * To the representatives of Venezuela's revolutionary government, such a document was subversive...
...first thrills wore off, a split occurred in the student body on the issue of the value of athletics. Half remained convinced that "naught but study should enter into a student's curriculum," and looked with disdain upon the gym fiends who went merrily on their athletic way. It was not until 1925 that athletics became a school requirement, and only in 1942 was it extended to its present two 1 year requirement...