Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...combat totalitarianism Brazil has no democratic tradition worth the name. It is split by sectional, racial and cultural differences. About 30% of its population is white, about 5% pure Indian, 12% pure black; the rest are mixed. There is a small upper class, a smaller middle class, a large, illiterate, exploited lower class. This class has no franchise, no influence, no right of assembly, of organization, of free speech. Dictator Vargas' Estado Novo (New State), has talked loudly of bettering their lot, is still talking...
...percent of the Freshmen favor Willkie as the Republican choice, while only 14 percent voted for Dewey, 12 percent for Taft, 7.2 percent for Hoover, and 6.9 percent for Vaudenburg. The remaining 8 percent of the votes were split among Martin, McNary, Knox, Bricker, Landon, and MacNider...
...This, however," Place optimistically explained, "is largely due to the fact that there were more Republican candidates to split the votes among, and also that Willkie is still considered a dark horse...
Gordon A. Sutherland 2G of Cambridge with an essay on "The Schweitzerian Heresy" and Walter J. Bates 1G of Richmond, Indiana with an essay on "Morbidity and Objectivity in Swift" split a $300 graduate prize...
...Federal Council of Churches met last week in Manhattan to draft a statement on the war. Badly split on isolation policy, it found a weak compromise: to set aside June 2 as a day of peace prayers. ∧ In Chicago, Dr. Harold Washington Ruopp (non denominational) decided not to talk on war before his big congregation in Orchestra Hall (home of Chicago Symphony) last week. Each new headline, declared he, changes his mind. In Jefferson City, Mo., the Rev. A. B. Jackson (Presbyterian) admitted: "I realize the Allies are fighting our fight for us. But we ought not to enter...