Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Oct. 17, you have a note "Swap" in the Miscellany column regarding the ad in Stamps of one Carl Percy wanting to swap a nine-room house for a stamp collection...
...members of the University, but the afternoon classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are especially intended for Freshmen who received D. Grades in their posture tests. A class for upper classmen on Tuesday and Thursday at 4 o'clock is being held and one on Monday, Wednesday ad Friday at 5 o'clock...
Kansas, under its new coach, Ad Lindsey, smothered Iowa State...
...Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers...
...college is the quotient of its tradition divided into its student body and Princeton's tradition was taking a turn. Dr. John Grier Hibben, the gentle scholar who succeeded strenuously scholarly Woodrow Wilson in 1912, had retired. Into his place, part-time and ad interim, was coming a figure as interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company?...