Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Floy Floy, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart, do not know themselves what the words mean. Said Slim: "We were sort of talking a new language." The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot. "When we put the floy floy on it, that was extra business. You got the whole dance right there; you're swinging. See what I mean...
...After a visit to her veterinary and a day's rest, she felt better. Next day, to make up for the day she had missed, she made two of her mysterious trips, brought back two dollars. Then she resumed her schedule of one per day. She made other extra trips later in the week, but disappointed her owners by carrying home in her jaws not extra cash, but a skimpy, flea-ridden terrier, a piece of bone, a sponge, a small grey kitten...
Meanwhile, the gold bar was carried in procession through Terschelling, the Dutch fishermen following and cheering, to the house of the burgomaster. Flags went up all over the island. The dredger crew was given an extra issue of gin. Conspicuous among the jubilant Netherlanders was an unromantic representative of Lloyd's, who claimed title to 30% of the gold bar (Billiton Co. and The Netherlands Government will divide the rest) but who remembered that gold bars had been brought up from the Lutine before. Let a strong wind come up before the Karimata finishes work, and in the shallow...
...years ago and directed subsequent tests. Sales claims for the germ flour: added nutritive value, superior aroma, flavor, palatability, long-keeping quality without preservatives, 25% reduction in amount of shortening needed. Chief claim: germ flour improves metabolism so greatly as to increase consumption; if everybody ate an extra slice of bread each day, 50,000,000 extra bushels of U. S. wheat would be used annually...
Although Oscar Lewis calls his book The Big Four, his first chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated...