His anxiety was well founded, for half a minute later, whizz!I could feel the rubber splitting!

It is an electoral system that forbids absolutely any vote splitting or any indication of shades of opinion.

This, of course, does not imply the splitting up of the universal mind into fractions, and it is to avoid this error that I have discussed the essential unity of spirit in the third section, but in order to avoid too highly abstract conceptions in the present stage of the student's progress we may conveniently employ the idea of a personal share in the universal subjective mind.

But the king liked the scholastic hair-splitting with which he was elsewhere entertained better than the plays.

There has occurred a splitting of the two reactions which ordinarily go hand in hand: the reaction of growth which is just brute increase of total mass or weight and volume, and the reaction of differentiation which is the finer process.

In both cases the action on the stricks of jute is equivalent to a combined combing and splitting movement, and the pins in the various rollers move relatively to each other so that while the pins of a slowly-moving roller allow the strick or stricks (because there are several side by side) to pass slowly and gradually from end to end, the pins of another but quickly-moving roller perform the splitting and the combing of the fibre.

As regards the splitting up of the fleet, no especially disadvantageous conditions are thereby produced.

4.End view of failures in compression across the grain, showing splitting of the ends of the test specimens.]

It is true Laharpe does understand the splitting of hairs, but only in scientific controversy; it is true he does use paint and powder, in that he paints his thoughts in words of elegance, and lays on them the powder of ingenious sophistryan art that is better understood in France than here.