Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When John William Davis was asked his opinion of the NRA program, he replied: "I have always believed, and still do, that no man should work less than eight hours a day. What are we going to do with all these extra hours? Honestly, how many men do you know who will use them for self-improvement, for reading a worthwhile book, or studying something they need? You know very, very few. And I know of very...
...platform restaurant of the Eiffel Tower by Mrs. (not Mme.J Denys Trefusis. She is by birth one of those Keppels who keep up the tone of British aristocracy. Despite, or perhaps because of, their proud Dutch blood, the Keppels produced two grooms-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed...
...when the 1933 National Air Races were run off at Los Angeles last week "Russ" Boardman and his Gee Bee 11 were not there to make that extra 5 m.p.h. Instead, his plane was a pile of wreckage in Indianapolis and his dead body was being flown back to his Hartford home. Without him, the fastest time flown at Los Angeles was 280 m.p.h.-first time in National Air Race history that one year's speed record was not bettered the next...
...were all dealings in in demnities (options on grain futures contracts, generally regarded as pure gambling). The New York Stock Exchange voted to lengthen its short sessions into the full five-hour trading day, but in mercy to frazzled brokerage house clerks, whose objection to all-night work without extra pay threatened to become a general strike, the Exchange will be closed every Saturday until after Labor...
...that during the regular college year, men often enroll in courses not because of their interet in a subject, but because of the instructor's personality. Capable teachers are indispensable to interest in learning. Too often a summer school faculty consists of instructors who wish to make a little extra money or visiting professors from other universities who are not nearly as familiar with their subject as the regular men. Other summer schools make a decided effort to keep teachers with reputations during the summer; state colleges are enabled to do it because they can offer them substantial salaries. There...