Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found only a half dozen who returned the guard's present arms with a hand salute. As for the officers who neglected to return the salute because they did not notice it or because noticing it they did not realize it must be returned these men did not add to their own reputation...
...week's end it was still too early for final conclusions. To Moscow's analysis (the Germans substantially agreed with its less insulting aspects) there was little except a few supplementary points for the experts to add.* Some of the valid points...
Statesman Chiang's words were a sharp reminder that now more than ever, since they are winning the war, the United Nations need to get together, add up their points and make a plan for winning the peace...
These practices have made A. P. a sort of private club, the Government maintained; they add up to a "flat boycott" against non A. P. papers; membership restrictions are so strict (majority vote of the members and payment of a stiff fee) that it takes an average six years to get an A. P. franchise. Moreover, the fee (10% of the assessments that A. P. members in the locality have paid since 1900) is so stiff that a new member in the New York City morning field (unless he could buy an A. P. franchise from a bankrupt paper) would...
Build-Up "Brekkers." In halcyon pre-war days, Oxford's summer term was one continuous build-up toward Eights Week. Six weeks before the event, the 23 men's colleges picked their eight-man crews with the care bestowed on the selection of a Cabinet. To add muscle and weight, the rowing hearties were subjected to a rigorous Oxford training combining exercise with heavy eating, such as "brekker" of porridge, fish, steak, huge racks of toast and mounds of marmalade - all washed down with draughts of strong, college-brewed beer...