Word: rife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speculation is rife in Cambridge concerning the constitution of the Sex Viri. This is a special university court, which can adjudicate in cases where graduates and University officers are charged with breaches of university discipline or with grave misconduct and also act as a Court of Appeal respecting the decisions of the General Board of the University. It has power to deprive graduates of their degrees, titles of degrees, or offices...
That the oath bill has no penalty clause is an established fact; thus speculation is rife as to whether the state or the university is in the position to enforce the signing of the oath. President Conant has taken the position in a letter published some weeks ago that the members of the faculty should comply to a state law, even though they and he are opposed in principle...
...Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because he would not resign, charged that the Commerce Department was rife with "serious derelictions . . . scandalous abuses . . . improper graft and favoritism" (TIME, June 24). Again Congress did its inquisitorial duty and the Senate Commerce Committee spent three footling days last week investigating the Mitchell allegations...
Somewhat ambiguously, President Roosevelt may have pointed the way to Bob Hutchins' future last autumn. President Hutchins called at the White House and for a few days the Press was rife with rumors that he was slated for a front-rank New Deal job, probably as NRA enforcement officer (TIME, Oct. 29). Then silence...
...second half of each year malaria is rife in the South. Quinine is the specific drug which victims of malaria take to combat that distressing disease. And quinine has a special, destructive effect on the auditory nerves...