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Flying to a smoker at Cambridge, Mass, for Harvard students, Jack Benny's drawling stooge Rochester (Negro Eddie Anderson) was persuaded to leave his plane at Providence, R. I. by a delegation of students who drove him lickety-split to a D. K. E. smoker at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Informed, 200 Harvard students rioted riotously. Uninformed, Rochester thought he was at Harvard until two hours later he discovered the awful truth...
...History, etc.). Because it regards itself as a part of the universal Catholic Church (the final break taking place after Henry's time), the Anglican Church claims succession from the Apostles. Actually the Methodist Church, founded by John Wesley, might make a similar claim, since it in turn split from the Anglican Church...
...appointments were split evenly among the College, Graduate Schools, and non-University affiliations...
...implies approval of its action in Finland. Most important of the points was a fear of moral condemnation that might obscure the practical program of no aid to belligerents' beyond the strict confines of cash and carry. We will not abandon the A.S.U. because of this split because we have enjoyed together a year of successful work and considerable growth...
Take something immensely more complex than an electron: a living cell. When the cell is "ready" to divide, the centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though...