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...party disapproving the adoption of Esperanto will bring out that the world has been perfectly well off without this artificial language, for many centuries. Also, that Esperanto would split up into dialects and finally different languages just as Latin...
...political action as well as economic. It was to prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." It would make only one bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses...
...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
...Hosmer, Yale '25: "Harvard is too split up. There should be a central campus and less individuality in the place...
...Split Quantum. One theory of matter is the quantum theory? that all things, all radiations are built up of quanta, or trifling pulsations of energy. Light is thus considered the effect of many quanta popping after one another. Dr. A. J. Dempter of the University of Chicago told how he had directed the light from a single vibrating atom at a thinly silvered mirror. In theory a single file of quanta battered at the mirror. Part of these reflected away, part passed through, just as would ordinary light. Possibly, thought Dr. Dempter, the quantum, smallest theoretical unit, was split into...