Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Estes, who started last Sunday with just an idea and the ability to knock on doors found 34 men who wanted to play in the intramural league but could not do so because they lived in dormitories. He wants to add 20 more players to the squad to insure the strongest team in the league. With the first game October 8 the "Outhouses" have talent ranging from a 248 pound six-foot-three linesman to several light, but fleet backs...
...turn, you may be interested in TIME Inc.'s own use of the airplane in covering the news, in conducting other aspects of our business, and in distributing our magazines. Figures for the last are astronomical and can be taken for granted. Figures for the former add up to about two million air miles during the first half of this year...
...This is the only time during the whole year that the Freshman class will live together as a unit," declared Dean Sherman yesterday. "The weekend should add considerably to College spirit...
...Mahatma magic had worked well in Calcutta. Just after 62 people had been killed, 400 injured, in 24 hours, Gandhi had announced that he would not eat until "sanity returned to Calcutta." (Aside he said: "As usual I shall permit myself to add salt and soda bicarbonate to the water I may wish to drink during the fast.") Anxious Calcuttans read about the Mahatma's pulse rate, his blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic) and the acetone and albumen in his urine; they stopped rioting...
...Many years ago a committee came to see me from an upstate rural county. . . . They then told me that they would let me know what the Republicans were paying for votes that year, and that if we would add a small amount to the price, we could probably elect the Democrat. A few days before the election they . . . told me that the Republican buying-price was a dollar and a half a vote, and that if we could raise the ante to a dollar seventy-five we would be successful. It is hard to admit that I was as gullible...