Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...King and Mifflin Kenedy, working as partners, founded what was to become the biggest fenced ranch in the U. S. Visitors said that it was 100 miles from Captain King's front gate to the front door of his ranch house. They also said that, when the partners split up, the documents were less like contracts than like treaties between two ' neighboring countries. In time the King family became allied with the vigorous and aggressive Klebergs, the Atwoods, the Armstrongs, and the great landowners of south Texas-a hearty, traveled, prosperous and sophisticated people, who might be called...
Like sweat and urine, saliva contains urea, a nitrogen compound. Dr. Stephan found that two groups of antagonistic bacteria flourish in saliva: 1) the destructive lactobacilli; 2) harmless germs of the staphylococcus family. By brewing an enzyme called urease. the staphylococci split up urea in the saliva into an ammonium compound, which neutralizes the erosive acid. Dr. Stephan's conclusion: teeth may decay when the saliva does not contain enough urea, or when the staphylococci are sluggish...
...roads led to Rome last week, and the Romans used them, lickety-split. Along a rock-&-gravel supply highway which Marshal Rodolfo Graziani had just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler...
...November, the Evangelicals realized that Hitler's hand-picked candidate was out to Nazify their church, crucify Christian doctrine, apply the "Führer Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to church personnel. Resistance flared up all over the Reich, and the newly united church split sharply into three groups...
Kirkland with six triumphs and a single setback could not be certain of the crown until the last moment, because Adams was in a position to split the honors. In the final tabulation, Adams was one point behind with one loss, and a deadlock. The other teams in order were Dunster, Lowell, Dudley, Eliot, Leverett, and Winthrop...