Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most people, Arthur Honegger is the great locomotive man of music. He wrote Pacific 231, a huffing, whooshing, lickety-split program piece which has snorted down countless orchestral tracks in the past 16 years. "I love locomotives," says Composer Honegger, "the way other men love women or animals." A solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny...
...decisive action. Mohandas Gandhi has always been convinced that India would eventually get more from Britain by moderation, discussion, compromise, delay. He argues that dominion status after Europe's war would be better than the repression which would surely follow an immediate violent Indian revolt. The Congress was split wide open: the followers of Mahatma Gandhi on the one hand, the advocates of activism-ranging all the way from Communists through middle-of-the-road Moslems to extreme Conservatives-on the other. The situation was tense because the latter were led by Subhas Chandra Bose, the only Indian...
...returned to Manhattan. Last week he announced that Atlas would split, like a cell, into two parts-one to stay with him in the money business, the other to be grafted to the lusty body of U. S. aircraft's Curtiss-Wright Corp...
Through long evolution, the various functions of the Dean's Office have been split up among the eight College deans, though most crucial problems ultimately find their way to Dean Hanford's desk. To keep in touch with undergraduates, the University Hall mentors last year held more than 6,720 conferences with students, kept them waiting for at least 1,120 hours on the back-breaking benches in University...
Second exemption will benefit the student who is doing work tested by the C. E. E. B. before his last year. In this case the prospective Freshman is allowed to split his four examinations over his last two years. In both cases Gummere said that the University would not follow these steps if it did not have the recommendation of the candidate's school...