Word: rife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excitement was rife in baseball circles last night at the prospect of the annual diamond classic between the CRIMSON and the Lampoon, scheduled to take place this afternoon on Soldiers Field. While little can be gleaned from the record of the Lampoon ball tossers so far this season the Mt. Auburn St. Aggregation is reputedly of unusual strength. The power of the CRIMSON nine has been amply demonstrated by its well earned mental and moral victory over the strong Princetonian batsmen last Saturday. The journalist ball players have enjoyed a complete rest from their bruising encounter on the New Jersey...
...Washington will talk about the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Rumors run rife that the President and the First Lady are estranged since he acted so badly to her before the newspapermen on several occasions while in the West last summer...
Rumors of a $600,000,000 merger involving the Baldwin Locomotive, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing, Westinghouse Air Brake, American Steel Foundries, American Rolling Mills and Standard Steel Car Companies were rife in Wall Street last week. Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain speculator and Manhattan stock market operator, was reported to have drawn up a plan with the Fisher brothers (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P. & William A., Detroit capitalists of Fisher Body fame), for a holding company into which the stockholdings of these recently successful investors would be pooled. A community of interest between six of the most prominent railway...
...singular explanation of the pride in antiques so rife, in the eyes of Yale, at Harvard, comes with the notice that Yale tears down old buildings to build new whereas Harvard merely has fires in the old ones and then repairs them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
Violent political partisanship in rife...