Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front of Sirocco, left 35,000 fans shaking their heads in bewilderment...
...cargo, valued at 1,200,000 francs, is fake; the ship, just insured for 300,000 francs, will be sunk; the seven piteous, hastily recruited members of the crew, who might ask embarrassing questions, will be locked in and drowned; Jerome and Romain and an agent ashore will split the proceeds. There isn't much Jerome can do about it. He has signed all the papers; if the Rose docks at Constantsa with its cargo of "machinery" he faces a long jail sentence...
...authority. When the King and Queen dined with him on their visit to Montreal, he got the conversation started by studying a list of conventions prepared for him, one of which was that he should not open the conversation. He has consistently opposed conscription, an issue which in 1917 split French and English Canadians wide open...
Saint Thomas, the doubting Apostle, founded the Church of the East in the First Century. A great missionary church, it made millions of converts in distant India and China, then slowly dwindled. Its split with the Western Church came when it accepted the doctrine of the dual nature of Christ propounded by Nestorius, a Fifth-Century Patriarch of Constantinople. Pope Celestine I declared the doctrine heretical. Nestorius was deposed, but Nestorianism continued to flourish among the Assyrians. Aramaic, the language which Christ spoke, is still the liturgical language of the Assyrian Church...
Lean, long-necked Clark, a better-than-average bowler as well as St. Paul municipal golf champion, split the narrow fairways with his long drives, chipped dead to the pin, took the starch out of jittery Dietz who tried hard to make a good showing before his home-town folks. At the end of the morning round, the match had become a rout, ended on the 30th green...