Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vote, however, should not be regarded as indicating a split in the Teachers' Union or as representing a definite stand by them on the war issue. Although it is rumored that the resignations of several interventionists are imminent these rumors were not confirmed, and it appeared likely that a final stand would not be made until meetings are resumed next fall...
While the war issue is considered vital, the Teachers' Union made it clear that their essential aim was to act as a labor union and that it would be fatal to their existence to split on what to them must be a secondary matter...
...never figured for a split minute that we could miss a big well unless we dug her sideways. I just naturally beleived it was just a case of digging and making a hole. And that cost money because drillers and roughnecks, truckers and swampers have...
...Germany pushed on to the Channel. Then the R. A. F., with its bombers in Britain, would still have to keep its pursuit planes in France, to protect an ally whose Air Force is inadequate. Germany could then strike in either direction, with its opponents' Air Forces split. Against this double threat. Britain last week extended its balloon-&-steel-cable barrage, warned its populace of dangers to come, waited...
...quite-commercial flecks and traces of gold. Why not pan the gravel for it before whisking the gravel to Shasta? As the first gravel moved over the conveyor last week a $30,291 gold-reduction plant (built by Columbia Construction Co.) was nearing completion. The deal: Christ to split the profits, if any, with Columbia after interest, plant and production costs. Oldtimers, recalling that Sacramento is part of the motherlode country, figured that the works might gross some...