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...posters went up in the Hutch "activating the Leverett Peace Corpe," spokesman David Binder '53 called Ferry's reply "specious, spurious, evasive, and propagandistic...
Violation or Outrage? Senator O'Conor was not so sure. Said he: "This double shipment around the world has resulted in evasion, if not actual violation of the Japanese export laws."The shipment, O'Conor added, was made possible by "misrepresentation" and "spurious" bills of lading. To crusty, crafty Hans Isbrandtsen, whose shipping line had drawn up some of the questionable bills of lading, O'Conor's charges were an outrage. "A steamship line such as ours," said he, ". . . follows the shipper's directions . . . whenever those directions are within regulations...
...socially prominent the "white shoe men," and hence the most desirable. Berkeley, Jonathan Edwards, and Timothy Dwight fit into a middle caste. Silliman is the home of vigorous but not big time extroverts, and Trumbull and Saybrook are shunned as "black shoe" choices. These dis- tinctions are pretty spurious since a Council of Masters carefully plants a balance of high school men, prep school men, and scholarship students in each College. Fraternities don't rush until the sophomore year, when students have been assigned to a College, so the distribution of aristocracy in a College becomes somewhat a matter...
...Slivers of this wood are still preserved and venerated in shrines throughout Christendom. In the Middle Ages, the hawking of spurious slivers became a scandal, and it was largely to reassure the faithful that a 19th Century Frenchman, Rohault de Fleury, devoted years to measuring the certified pieces still in existence. Their volume, according to De Fleury, was only 4,000 cubic centimeters, or about 2% of the probable volume of the cross...
...finally think of going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days later, the cops caught Marie Fuller impersonating the baritone "Benson" over the telephone. They raided her apartment, found stacks of spurious Ford Motor Co. stationery and the records of the conspiracy: $1,300 from one 66-year-old pensioner, $81,000 from the plumber, $110,000 from two farmers-more than...