Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anton Karas to London, kept him plucking away at his tunes for six weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
Since Cambridge's mayor automatically acts as chairman of all city committees, Crane's victory is a considerable success for the CCA. His position as mayor will break a deadlock on the Cambridge School Committee, whose six-man membership had been split evenly between CCA endorsed candidates and independents...
...such a world, as Hutchins saw it, education had been split into specialized fields in which chemists could not speak to lawyers and hardly anyone was speaking to God, in which everything was a matter of opinion and each opinion was as important as every other. "It has become the fashion," he once told his students, "to be bewildered...
Meanwhile, beyond the Midway, other educators chimed in with protests. To John Dewey, the split between Hutchins and himself was "the cleft that now marks every phase and aspect of philosophy. It presents the difference between an outlook that goes to the past for instruction and for guidance, and one that holds that philosophy . . . must pay supreme heed to movements, needs, problems, and resources that are distinctively modern...
...waving, an inspired North Carolina squad held Notre Dame even for half a game (6-6) in Yankee Stadium; then the dam burst and Carolina was swamped, 42-6. Already headed for the Rose Bowl, California took a deep breath and breezed by Oregon, 41-14. Oklahoma's split-T formation crackled and snapped to send a strong Missouri team down, 27-7, for its worst defeat of the year. The only one of the four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system...