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...result of an offer to sing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Club found it necessary to split with the Banjo and Mandolin in 1919. This schism caused a great deal of trouble in the College...
...gigantic operation. It was designed to split the three fronts once and for all. If it succeeded, the job of beating Russia would then be much like the job of beating three smaller countries. One would be the land of Leningrad, where a great pool of Russian defense had already been dammed up. The second would be the country of Muscovy, where a second great mass would be isolated. The third would be the Ukraine and the Caucasus, where the rest of Russia's hope would be boxed. Three little armies would be far easier to crush...
...Schisms. Hitler struck first and squarely at the center. He achieved victories great enough to force the Russians to withdraw part of their strength from the two flanks. He then drove a wedge northeastward, which cut off Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and his forces in Leningrad. That accomplished the split between north and center...
Great Britain split her rapidly expanding Middle Eastern forces last week. G.H.Q. (Cairo) announced that henceforth the Army of the Nile would be divided into an Army of the Western Desert and an Army of Syria and Palestine...
Although no official scare was kept of the informal contest, the Varsity could only pass the British goalie ones, while the visitors split the nets five times. The booters' lone score came in the second quarter when left inside Eli Berman took the ball down the middle of the field and passed to center-forward Jack Calhoun. Calhoun returned the ball to Berman, who ricocheted the ball away from the goalie for the tally...