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...split tournament, started yesterday and to be continued on Thursday, the Puritan tennis team gained a 2-0 lead over the Dunster netmen in two doubles matches...
...that Abe Faber is a schizomaniac. Now don't let that word stop you as it must have choked the 12 tried and true men who go to make up the Millen-Faber jury. For uninformed souls, schizomania is a cute little word for that ultra-modern disease, a "split personality." At this point, one thing seems certain. The effect that the mention of this alphabetical masterpiece would have on the 12 doctors, lawyers, beggars and thieves that usually form the backbone of a representative American jury, would be to confuse them so completely that the already shaky wheels...
Indignant at the vote for Statehood, Professor Clemente Pereda who hunger-struck for independence (TIME, April 9) demanded the formation of an Independence Party. Angry that the Professor should seek to split the Nationalist Party (which also carries the independence banner ) Student Francisco Pagan Rodriguez assaulted Patriot Pereda. In no wise had seven foodless days permanently incapacitated the Professor. With one roundhouse right he floored his assailant, proceeded to pummel him until they were separated...
...open end of a pipe sticking out of the ground, shoved his chubby leg into it. When the leg stuck, Donald cried. A crowd collected, sent for emergency, police and fire squads. The crowd grew to more than 1,000, jamming traffic as they milled and chattered. A policeman split open the pipe while Donald clung to his father, thoughtfully inspected his fellow Washingtonians, sucked his fingers...
...stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains in Missouri the Iroquois crossed the Mississippi River. Tennessee and Kentucky, split into two groups. One turned north and settled around Lakes Erie and Ontario. The other (Cherokee) kept straight ahead until they reached the North Carolina mountains. Mapmaker Bushnell thinks it almost certain that the vanguards of these migrations found the wilderness ahead of them totally unpopulated...