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Forty Quincy Street, the new Freshman dormitory, entered the news for the first time yesterday as tales of locked doors, fire alarms and a Yardling Lady Godiva ran rife...
...year-old dancer was detained by an extra rehearsal, reportedly called because some cuts were to be made in the production which was considered too long. The diners, unaware of this, craned their necks to look at everyone who entered the hall and speculation was rife as to whether the chorine at one table was Miss Zorina...
...seemed of such minor speculative importance. Presently producers began protesting about fluctuations of wool prices and the Senate appointed a Wool Investigating Committee. Matters came to a head last December when wool dealers in Boston demanded the closing of the New York wool futures market, claiming that speculation was rife (TIME, Dec. 6). Finding that wool trading was similar to trading in other commodity futures, the Senate decided to put wool markets also under the eye of the Commodity Exchange Administration and last week President Roosevelt's signature made the bill...
...have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife throughout the world. I myself pledged this House not to open conversations with Italy until hostile propaganda ceased...
...some time there has been considerable speculation in regard to this so-called Lexicon contest Lampoon's funnymen are staging with Wellesley, and last night rumor was rife about a tie-up between humor and big business at the Mount Auburn Street institution...