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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Derby, set themselves up as a nonprofit corporation called the Churchill Downs Foundation. Last week, they arranged to buy the track (from themselves and a few minority stockholders). From now on, they will take no profits, pay no taxes (saving up to $40,000 a year). They plan to split the surplus left after salaries and operating expenses between the university medical school and general charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Short of Bank Robbery | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...still coming. He had narrowly missed seeing his three entries take first, second and fourth place; with only eight laps to go, one of Moore's cars had to drop out with a broken magneto strap. But by taking first and third, Moore won $65,855 in prizes, split (6s%-35%) with his drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motor Monopoly | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Three varsity hurlers--Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, and Barry Turner--split the pitching duties. Only Turner got away unscathed, and it took some fine support to save him, Godin and Hymans each gave up four runs, including home runs by Jack Wallace and Bill Barron of the 1947 team. Varsity outfielder Herb Neal retaliated with a three-run homer off Wallace in the sixth, when Stuffy McInnis' men got four of their five tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Down Varsity Nine By 8-5 Count | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Robert Fletcher Rogers prize for mathematics papers was split by William J. Puranski 1G, and Lawrence Friedman Markus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Glean Laurels for Essays, Math Papers | 6/11/1949 | See Source »

Last February, a group of Olivet students and teachers took Father Shipherd's precepts to heart, split off from Olivet College, and announced their intention to form a college of their own, to be known as Shipherd College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olivet Spawns Rebel School | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

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