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Varied schemes for reorganization were suggested and discussed, prominent among them being the modification of banjo and mandolin activities. This is a logical step, in line with modern tastes and trends. The vocal Club is the strongest member of the organization because of its natural appeal to students who prefer lighter music than that offered by the Glee Club. Around it, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the ever-popular specialty acts, the new officers can build the prospects for a highly successful season...
...unfortunate victim will be the Dartmouth Varsity. On May 22 competition with the Indians in rowing will be initiated on the Charles. This season will be the Indians' first on the water, and they prefer to start modestly, handicapped at the outset by a long winter...
...when cocoa reached 13? per Ib. for the first time since 1928, nervous brokers advised their clients that the time for profit-taking had come. "With the chance that titanic forces are cannily at play in the bull-ring," said I. Witkin & Co.'s colorful market letter, "we prefer for the time being to be on the sidelines or in the grandstand. Possibly to help a huge and financially powerful long-interest, if our conjectures be correct, to unload upon a heterogeneous and unorganized investing public and manufacturers at large is to court an attack of speculative indigestion. . . ." Gently...
...ring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...
Divorced women greatly prefer to marry bachelors. For alternate choice it is a toss-up between widowers and divorc...