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...gold, blue, red & black mosaics, its multi-colored marble panels and the ancient ikons on the reredos above its elaborate stone altar, it was a far cry from Manhattan's John Street Church. That church was the home of the first Methodist Society in the U. S., which split wide open in 1820 and lost many a member because the trustees put a carpet on the pulpit platform...
Yale in the person of Albie Booth put an end to Cantab hopes for an undefeated season in 1931, when the Eli leader split the goal posts for three vital points. The gilded era ended next year with the sale of seats to the general public, which act Yale celebrated by a 19 to 0 shutout...
...Harvard undergraduate who wants a comprehensive knowledge of either medieval or modern European history will find that he has to take an almost impossible number of courses. The reason is that after History 1 the courses nearly all split up into vertical histories of nations. Exceptions are spotted intellectual histories, a course on the Rennaissance and Reformation, and Professor Langer's History of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries...
...split by his pre-election denunciation of the President, last week split wider. Powerful, pro-Roosevelt groups, formally and loudly called upon Lewis to make his word good, step down. William Leader, of the C. I. O. hosiery workers, wired: "Well, John. . . . What are you waiting...
Ribs crushed, fabric ripped and afire, the airliner split in two, spilled three of its passengers into space, rocketed the others to the bottom of the bay. Across the water the De Havilland fluttered spinning to earth, shorn of its wing. In a final dive it smashed through the roof of a house, hurled its pilot, World War I Aviator Colin Abbot, into the street below...