Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime Red Cross work, then taught singing for eight years. He became president of Chicago Musical College in 1925, resigned...
...propose to call an extra session of Congress. I know nothing that would so disturb the healing processes now undoubtedly going on in the economic situation. We cannot legislate ourselves out of the world economic depression. We can and will work...
...Taking notice of a rumor that detectives had gathered evidence for the 17 suspensions, Mt. Holyoke said officially: "The detection of infringement of college regulations was not brought about by detectives, but came through report by the culprits themselves to the college judicial board. There have been no extra fire drills**. . . President Woolley says . . . 'The college is now suffering the backwash of lawlessness which prevails, frequently unchecked, in the country at large...
When the mayors get to France, where Boston's Curley will join the party, Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore will have $8,000 in extra spending money. Just before he sailed he decided to accept the back pay from a salary increase which his city granted him in 1927 but which he had hitherto rejected...
...departure in modern education. It merely points to the trend which university education is taking; it is another step in the direction of education--of the most practical and "worth-while" sort--for everybody. The modern young business man, we are told, who has taken four extra years out of his life to get himself educated desires to study subjects that will be useful to him in the cement business, in the manufacture of washing machines, in personnel management or building subways. Latin and Greek, either by a knowledge of the languages themselves or a complete familiarity with classical culture...