Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only reason why people go to tutoring schools, that they haven't done enough work, was studiously omitted from the questionnaire on the grounds that the Committee was afraid that "people wouldn't admit it." Well, perhaps. But to disguise this under "too much time spent in extra-curricular activity" is hardly a step toward the plain-speaking that is necessary if the problem is to be solved...
...unions, had made reconciliation even more remote was asserted by the Typographers' President Charles P. Howard, secretary of C. I. O. The A. F. of L., constitution reserves the power to suspend a member union by a two-thirds convention vote. The Executive Council thus acted extra-constitutionally when it suspended the insurgents, who were thereby deprived of right to cast the one-third plus of convention votes which they control...
...abort what looked like a touchdown, spoiled the play by bowling into Fike. The field judge ruled interference, gave Navy the ball on Army's 3-yd. line. With four downs to put it over, Navy's Sneed Schmidt smashed through on the third. Ingram kicked the extra point. Two minutes later the game was over, Navy 7, Army...
...gone 88 feet before the brakes took hold; the average is half that." I swallow my confidence and so on to get grades of 30% each on the Steering and Vigilance tests. In the Speed-and-Timing test I run up a score of 7 . . . More than five indicates extra caution in passing other cars. My vision, in all its aspects, is either questionable or low. My hearing, however, is satisfactory. The professor tells me that "it would be to my advantage to endeavor to drive as little as possible." I thank him for putting it so kindly...
...indeed a tribute to the business acumen of you students", said Cantor, speaking from the rostrum, "when you can get me to an extra show for nothing...