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...chart of rising prices. The food line ran clear off the top of the chart-up to 203% from an average 100% in 1935-39. If we don't find some way to stop this awful spiral, the President said briskly, a crash will be the inevitable result...
...pressed hard on red-faced, 78-year-old Labor Lord Addison to agree to a delay and a conference. His object: to reform the House of Lords the Tory way. A conference would probably result in a compromise: cutting the present membership by more than half, allowing hereditary peers to elect parliamentary representatives from their own ranks (as Scottish peers do), balancing the reduced hereditary element by creating more Laborite peers...
...climbed in The tuba of Serafim And the result Of this merger Was that the tuba went Pum pum pum-meow...
...about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely miss indentation. And every so often, of course, a man is knocked down...
Springfield's reputation got a glant shot in the arm Tuesday night as a result of the basketball game; but there has been little day-dreaming around the pool about this particular contest anyway. The Gymnasts took M.I.T. and Tufts over the hoops easily, and dropped decisions only to Yale (a comparatively close 31-44 meet on opening day) and a tough Williams team. The chief threat here seems to be a backstroker named Whittin, who has turned in some pretty fine times this year...