Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With two out in the fourth frame, Bob Gannett justified his new place in the lineup by singeing the first base line with a hard hit triple, the only one extra base hit of the game. The second Crimson run scored when Gannett raced home on Jeffers' wild pitch to Colwell...
...wants to say it to more than his usual readers. On such occasions his thoughts overflow into a book, the fruit of studious reading, conservatively liberal thinking, alert observations gleaned on his annual trips to Europe. Though respectfully reviewed, his books have never been bestsellers, but last winter an extra-editorial utterance of Editor Armstrong's caught the public ear. So timely, so comprehensive, so stimulating did U. S. readers find the 106 pages of We or They† that it began to sell like a racy novel, by last week had passed its 40th thousand...
...report observed: "Whatever may be said for the policy of public works in times of Depression, there can be no question about the undesirability of increased government outlay once the expansion of business is in full swing, for then there is the danger that extra stimulus may produce an unhealthy boom. . . . Considering the phase that has been reached in the business cycle, this increase comes at a wrong time and tends to stimulate wrong trades— namely, those that already are benefiting most from general recovery of business...
President Conant told the gathering that his American history extra-curricular plan will help meet the criticism that college men have no capacity for intellectual expansion after graduation. He indicated that the reading list for the history course will be published soon...
...Examination will begin a 9.15. The blue books will be disturbed at that hour. The papers, however, will be distributed at 9 o'clock to those present. The obvious purpose of this arrangement is to allow 15 minutes extra time before the examination to those who may wish to read over the paper...