Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the national till. Last week the White House let it be known that "a scheme for selective sales taxes is being considered officially." What this means is that President Hoover may propose to Congress a luxury tax. It also indicates that Treasury and President have decided that the extra billion dollars cannot be squeezed out of the higher income tax brackets, a measure favored by the American Federation of Labor and most politicians (TIME...
...Thomas Lewis, editor of the English journal Heart, gave a new explanation of the pain of intermittent limping. During muscular activity, he explained, certain products called metabolites are given off. At the same time extra blood is forced through the debilitated vessels of the limbs. The extra blood washes away the metabolites during the exercise. But when movement ceases and circulation returns to its defective condition, there is not enough blood to flush out the metabolites which the muscles continue to form for a while. The accumulated metabolites cause the lameness and agony. This is the probable explanation. Until more...
...equally expert tennis, his scholastic rank (top of his class). Crickard caught one of them for a touchdown, White caught another for another touchdown. After the first, Wood fumbled the pass from centre but picked the ball up and tore around left end, instead of kicking, for the extra point. That point eventually won the game for Harvard, 14 to 13, but not until, in the last period, Wood had made one other brilliant run-to catch Army's Halfback Paul Johnson who had the ball and a clear field when Wood tackled him from behind on Harvard...
...queer about him. At police headquarters Peter De Peter was fingerprinted; amazed policemen saw he had on each hand five fingers & a thumb, promptly released him. Peter De Peter said his father was ten-fingered and twelve-toed, and so was his son, 15, until he had the extra fingers cut off. He works his ten fingers nimbly at the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant...
...quarterback Haley on the Harvard 25-yard line, and carried it back to the 15-yard line before he was forced out of bounds. On the next play, Ritchie caught a pass from Frigard, playing at full back, and ran the remaining distance to score. Frigard place-kicked the extra point...