Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...heavily favored Dartmouth hoop team will engage the Crimson Varsity fresh from its upset victory over Tufts last Saturday in the indoor Athletic Building tonight. This game in the first home contest in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the Crimson who have split their other two League games...
...Lickety-split from a blizzardy Georgia vacation went William Lyon Phelps to New Haven, to see a Yale production of Timon of Athens, which put him one step closer to his life-long ambition: to see all of Shakespeare's plays before he dies. Of the Bard's putative 37 dramas, Emeritus Professor Phelps, 75, has now seen all but Two Gentlemen of Verona, three-part Henry...
...Most widespread U. S. mental disorder, according to expert opinion, is dementia praecox, or schizophrenia (split personality). Dr. Dayton's statistics tell a different story. Mental disease No. 1 is senile psychosis, the madness of old age. Causes: hardened arteries, threadbare nervous system, worn-out brain, tired heart, "outrageous fortune." From 1917 to 1933, there was an average of 2,000 senile psychotics per 100,000 population; schizophrenics averaged only...
...Nassau five opened its E.L.L. season against the Big Red, and is batting 1.000 thus far. By denting Cornell, the Tigers not only helped themselves to top honors, but broke a three-way tie between Yale, Dartmouth, and Cornell, all of whom had split leading laurels previous to the Princeton...
Copper. Not since October has the price of copper budged. At that time all leading producers put the price up to 12½?. Last week the price was split three ways on the downside. Buyers were sitting tight and production was running on. So the No. 1 U. S. copper customs smelter, American Smelting & Refining Co., began taking odd-lot orders at 12¼?, while its competitors were hopefully holding out for 12½?. Meanwhile, export copper and the price of a couple of marginal units slipped...