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...back on the house of labor he could not dominate. Truculent and unrepentant of having formed the secessionist C.I.O., he had returned to A.F.L. 22 months ago in the hope of twirling its leaders around his little finger. The formal reason for his curt note of divorce was his split with A.FL.'s officers over methods of combating the Taft-Hartley...
...campus Everett House at 53 Garden Street has been chosen as the Holiday residence. On December 25, even that dormitory will be deserted, as the ten concentrators doff eyeshades and scatter in all directions to split Christmas Day wish bones with friends...
...steamboating partner, Captain Mifflin Kenedy, launched a modest cattle business. It boomed during the Civil War. They drove cattle and horses to the Confederate troops, and their steamboats, laden with cotton, ran the Union blockade. As money rolled in (at cost plus 10%) they added to their lands, then split up. (The Kenedy Ranch today adjoins the King Ranch...
...product of war research in problems of mechanical noises and their effect on personnel. It was established in 1940, at which time the basement of Memorial Hall was altered to make an efficient and ultra-modern headquarters. Later, when the Social Relations Department and the Department of Psychology split up, it seemed only logical, in view of the close tieup between psychology and acoustics, to turn over a portion of the Laboratory to Psychology and the shift was made...
Dean Pollock thought that it was no crime to sometimes split an infinitive, and that a preposition was often a good word to end a sentence with. But, he added, they should "avoid pushing every new or seeming truth we meet to the edge of folly. It is folly to conclude . . . that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used...