Word: split
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...election of 1824, the vote of the states was so split that Andrew Jackson got 99 electoral votes, J. Q. Adams 84, William H. Crawford 41, and Henry Clay 37. Since no one had a majority, the election was thrown into the House of Representatives to choose among the three leaders. Clay turned his influence to Adams, who was then elected on the first ballot...
Earlier in the week, Premier Baldwin of Britain barely tided over an open Cabinet split on this issue, and the British press continued to flay "Monsieur" Chamberlain for having allegedly gained M. Briand's support at Locarno by promising to champion France's ally, Poland, before the League...
...Thomas wrote Arizona, In Mizzoura, Still Waters (see THE THEATRE, p. 17). He nominated Mr. Bryan for President in 1908, but split from him when the Commoner concentrated on the religious issue...
...Dreiser wrote almost half a million. If anybody else and done it--but, of course, nobody would have--but if anybody else had, the publishers would have said, yawning. "Well, cut that in half, throw away half of that, re-write the remainder four times, looking sharply for split infinitives and dangling participles, and then perhaps, perhaps we shall take a chance...
...would not divulge details, but indicated that he had mathematically discovered "a simple new combination of capacity and inductance that functions through properties of the wireless wave other than amplitude and harmonics." It was his belief that the number of portions into which a given wavelength could be split is indefinite...