Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending to be a lawyer's clerk. But in spite of his pains, in spite of instrumentation gaudy as the newssheet he was depicting, in many a critical opinion Grof...
...undergone expansion by 1930. Shrewd President Chase realized, earlier than many another, that it was time for retrenchment. From the State Legislature the University received $12,000,000 biennially. Although President Chase added a College of Fine & Applied Arts and a School of Physical Education, it was at no extra cost to the budget. He cut many a fiscal corner and last week the University had a cosy $2,500,000 to spare, more than half of which is car-marked for Illinois' medical school buildings in Chicago...
...American Tobacco Co., maker of Lucky Strike, one of the four big 15? brands, paid its regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 but omitted the usual $1 extra dividend. Wall Street heard that President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco was planning to cut prices below the $6 per 1,000 at which Luckies now wholesale, has sworn to run 10? cigarets out of business if he has to make them himself...
...expense. There should be many more tutors than there are at present. But tutors cost money and must also be given some liope of advancement. The next greatest difficulty is not with the system but with the students. Most students, I suppose, do not care to assume extra burden of tutorial work without the corresponding benefits of college courses, credits. Hence tutorial work is likely to be regarded by them as an infliction rather than an advantage. For that reason I should favor your proposal in Question Eleven...
Reflecting the uncertainty of the times in an eleventh-hour rush, some 32 odd men have now applied to the Business School for admission to its Extra Session, which begins on Monday, January 30, and continues until August 16. This sudden although somewhat anticipated last moment influx has definitely raised the number of applicants already accepted from 45 or 50 to at least 66, since some of the latest cases are now under consideration, and a few have been already rejected...