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Yesterday the candidates, numbering around 350, split up, according to their positions of either linemen, ends, or backfield players and worked out under coaches appointed to take charge of the different departments...
Adams House's Gold Coasters have walked off with the league championship for the last two years and split even in two games with the Yale winners. Many of the other House teams have been accustomed to challenge Yale teams in past years; and one season, seven Houses sent their men against the Elis on the day before the Varsity game with the Blue...
Willkie found Syria painfully unsettled. Authority was split uncertainly between French and English local governments. There was the racking prospect of a wheat shortage and starvation caused by vicious hoarding, speculation and profiteering...
Adams has won the championship for the last two years and has split even in its two games with the Yale winners. Samborski hopes to have the House winner play the Yale champion again this year...
...durable old soldier and scholar who leads South Africa against the Axis, Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, has found it highly convenient to have his chief home opposition split into two warring camps. One is the noisy Ossewa Brandwag (Ox Wagon Sentinel) Party headed by burly Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg, who would like nothing better than to be Adolf Hitler's South African Gauleiter. The other is the Herenigde (Reunited) Party of bald, myopic Dr. Daniel François Malan.* Dr. Malan preaches with pompous eloquence against "British-Jewish" democracy and advocates his own brand...