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...Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated for injuries. Other class spirit activities described by the Princetonian this fall included the shaving of the heads of five freshmen, a series of thefts involving a hired airplane and the clapper to the Nassau hall bell, and the annual Cane Spree, which promptly initiated another riot...
...Princeton, N.J., Princeton, pick of the Ivy League Big Three, over Williams, 66-0, in the Tigers' biggest scoring spree in 16 years...
...daughter, confined in a state institution for drug addiction but soon to be released, would promptly get a fresh supply. In Chicago, a man reported to the FDA office that he had found his wife drugged with products bought from the Fair Price Drug Co. (on a previous drug spree she had landed in jail). There were similar complaints from smaller cities, e.g., in North Platte, Neb. (pop. 12,429) four druggists had illegally sold barbiturates, sulfas and abortion drugs. These firms and others were convicted...
...Those taxes would be very heavy," Taft conceded. Democrats, too, indicated that the U.S. could soon expect a bill to raise this year's taxes. The nation, said Taft, must become a semi-garrison state ; it cannot go on borrowing its way and "enjoying ... a domestic spree...
...some elaborately contrived plotting, the Charles Schnee script has taste enough never to allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...