Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relays, he turned in a 4:17 mile; and Tuttle did almost equally well as he ran beautifully to take first place--despite the fact that over the last three miles of the course he had one shoe on and one shoe off. Mikkola has only one thing to add about him--"if he could only spend a little less time on labs," he says wistfully...
...rejoicing. They were being examined last week preparatory to the name-changing on January 1. All Jews born after that date must be labeled with an unmistakably Jewish first name, specified in a published Nazi list. Jewish men whose present names differ from those on the list must now add Israel, Jewish women must tag on Sarah. Reported by many correspondents as also planned for the New Year by Germany's rampant anti-Semitic rulers was a more-drastic-than-ever decree forbidding Jews to work for Aryans, to own or work in factories, banks, wholesale houses...
When President Roosevelt took the trouble to prepare for the press a written castigation of the Senate "Ism" Committee, he did more than add to his long list of shattered precedents: he crystallized for informed public opinion an important problem in governmental practice. Theoretically, the Dies Committee has been investigating un-American activity, and it was given a Senate appropriation for that purpose; actually what has happened is that the United States Senate has been used as a soap box from which to propagate political twaddle...
...story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines staring up at the ceiling as they had been staring ever since the old chief had left them there." Yet these are more than mere details, they all add something to the impression the author is trying to create. She goes on to say "and none of these things mattered now, I thought, none of these emphatic headlines, those photographed faces, those men hurrying to meetings. I wondererd how much they ever mattered to Porto Praia...
...problems met in planning the trans-Atlantic flight, so many of these problems are interesting that the reader only occasionally becomes impatient for the takeoff. The struggle with the elements, the difficulty of removing excess weight from the load--these matters, especially to the layman, are often fascinating. They add to the reader's interest in the actual voyage exactly as the entree adds to the interest in a meal...