Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...implies approval of its action in Finland. Most important of the points was a fear of moral condemnation that might obscure the practical program of no aid to belligerents' beyond the strict confines of cash and carry. We will not abandon the A.S.U. because of this split because we have enjoyed together a year of successful work and considerable growth...
Take something immensely more complex than an electron: a living cell. When the cell is "ready" to divide, the centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though...
...Japanese. First they drummed out every eligible U. S., British, French, White Russian, Austrian-Jewish and Czecho-Slovakian citizen to vote with them. The number looked meagre. So the Westerners decided that if the Japanese could use puppets, so could they. They pooled large real-estate holdings and split them among hundreds of dummy "owners." When voting day came, the dummies flocked to the polls. Result: a Council comprised of five Chinese, five Britons, two Americans, and two very angry Japanese...
...keeps the funnybones of Fibber & Co. ribbing the customers in the old-fashioned way is still Don Quinn. He and the Jordans still split the radio salary three ways, a weekly net of something like $4,000. As top-line radio salaries go, this is small potatoes. Tip-off to the Johnson Glo-Coat bargain rate with Fibber & Co. is that S. C. Johnson & Son own the names Fibber McGee and Molly...
Scattered from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the Brothers Rose meet only two or three times a year. Once they meet as stockholders, tot up the profits, split them five equal ways. Several times a week they meet by telephone, manage to pile up tolls of $10,000 a year in shop talk, family gossip...