Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gore and McKinlock combined. With the new Houses surrounding the Freshman dormitories, it certainly seems far safer to move the Freshmen to the Yard than to try to work the two systems side by side. Moreover, if the Freshmen are not moved, the Yard dormitories will have to be split into Houses. Such a procedure would be far more difficult and much less likely to succeed than the adapting of the Yard to the present system of Freshman segregation...
...Court Auctioneer is likewise in a position where graft can be a sore temptation. By forced sale he turns possessions into cash. He may conspire with a few choice buyers to undersell assets to them at a bountiful profit which they graciously and secretly split with him. He may rig his auction books to show low sale prices, pocketing money that should go to creditors...
Last week, Manhattan financial reports included an offering of 50,000 shares of A. G. Spalding & Bros., the issue being no-par common at $65. Directors approved a five-to-one stock split-up, increasing common from 60,000 shares, $100 par to 500,000 shares, no-par. Among backers of the new issue was Dillon, Read...
Ryan Brougham-5-seat cabin monoplane; one-piece wing, braced by 2 pairs of tube struts; radial engine at front of a tubular section starting with sloping windshield; fuselage small; rudder roundish; split undercarriage joined to wing struts...
Stearman--3-seat open cockpit biplane; wings unequal; strutted to fuselage; fuselage slim; sharp curves on tail units; radial engine; split axled wheels close to body...