Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech of the campaign was shouted from atop a dynamo in Berlin's vast Siemens & Halske electric works. To hear him by radio all German factory workers stopped work for one hour. This time-out the workers had to make up later by working an hour overtime without extra pay. "German workmen!" shouted Orator Hitler. "International conflicts are fomented by a small group of international gypsies...
Michigan's kick-blocking ends and Halfback Herman Everhardus' toe again helped to keep Michigan on the Humpty Dumpty wall. Everhardus booted a field goal against Iowa, kicked the extra point after Bill Renner had forward-passed to a touchdown. Left End Ted Petoskey crashed through to block the kick-for-point after Iowa's touchdown...
...season I have next year. The best game I have ever pitched in major league baseball I consider to be an encounter against the Chicago White Sox. During the first nine innings I allowed about three hits. Herb Pennock relieved me in the ninth. Then the game went into extra innings, and was finally won by Chicago...
...Harvard Junior Varsity football team played the Providence College Freshmen team in a game which ended in a 6-6 tie yesterday at Soldiers Field. Right half-back Gibbs scored for the Jayvees after a 25 yard run early in the second period. DeGive's try for the extra point went wide. The only other time that Harvard was within scoring distance of the goal was early in the first period, immediately after the opening kickoff. Two first downs were made which brought the ball to Providence's 26 yard line, and there the ball was held on downs...
...Post's civic exploits. Every year the available hunters of Denver go off to the mountains in quest of jackrabbits, and these, in astronomical quantities, are dumped in front of the Post Building for the usufruct of the poor. The Post has always sold coal--its slogan "An Extra Lump With Every Ton" was in Bonfil's best vein. When Denver's physicians announced that most of the jackrabbits had tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even to be abashed. Did not every paper chute...