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...contest "more than 50 seats" at the next General Election. All political dopesters agreed that the effect of this would be to defeat Conservative candidates in constituencies contested by a United Empirist, and probably to elect the Labor candidates in such constituencies. In other words the new party will split the Conservatives, how disastrously it remains to be seen...
...Sarton is at present at work completing the second volume of his History of Science. The material that he has collected, however, is so much that the second volume will necessarily be split up into two parts...
...from an assistant professor-ship at the University of Pennsylvania and later from the University of Toledo, on account of his pacifist teachings. In 1917 he became a member of the socialist party and an instructor at the Rand School of Social Sciences. New York City. Following the 1920 split in the socialist party, he joined the ranks of the communists. He is also the author of many books on socialism...
...solicitors themselves often unfairly treated. Its report, in the case of one soliciting crew: the manager "had mastered them ... in high finance. They had gaily signed a lot of documents which made them very nearly peons. When they brought their money to him at night he didn't 'split' with them. He 'held it back' and gave them $2.25 a day subsistence money. . . . One girl was taken ill in a hick-town hotel and left there...
...into absent-minded habits, so that he would walk through the streets in a trance, laugh at the wrong times, and speak out of turn. Once for two days he neglected his law business while he sat, surrounded by compasses, calculations and rulers, trying to square the circle. He split rails and infinitives with equal ease: when he had written his letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination in 1860, he took it to the Springfield superintendent of education, who pointed out a split infinitive. Said Lincoln: "So you think I better put those two little fellows...