Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Williamson, and Thompson opposing him. The winner will probably have to clear 14 feet to top such a field. Finlayson and Kidder are a pair of weight men who need only to repeat the performances which they turn in every day in practice plus a little extra determination to place first and second. Healey is talking mysteriously about a new discovery of his which will add three feet to his shot puts
...that this initial expense would be more than balanced by the increase in the number of calls. Switchboards could be put in the various Houses, a fixed charge could be made for each outside call, and it is virtually certain that calls within the buildings could be made without extra expense...
...There are many types of people who are reported to us for help in composition", stated Mr. McMullen, "and perhaps the most amusing is the student who has been excused from English A. When a man is sent to us for extra help he takes one of three attitudes. He may be openly hostile, and come banging his way in, obviously enraged because he has been thought 'illerate' by his instructor; he may be curious as to what it all is about, and just what English F is; or he may be one of those excused from English...
...have made over about 40 men who come voluntarily, besides those who have some definite faults to correct. They come mostly because they are interested in improving their writing, and yet have no time to take the extra courses which they want", Mr. McMullen explained. "They are those who realize that English F, as the Committee is called, is a help and not a penalty...
...British Ford differs from the Austin and Morris by four inches of extra length. All are low, racy, big-doored, have slanting radiators, are smartly painted. Like Austin and Morris, the Ford is eight-horsepowered. Owners will pay ?8 per year tax (based on horsepower), far less than the ?16-to-?24 tax on Model A Fords. Price for the sedan (cheapest model) is ?120. Austin's sedan costs ?118, Morris' ?122. Fords, like Austins and Morrises, will run 35 miles on a gallon of petrol. In seeking to break into tax-ridden Britain's popular...