Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell me whether your writers chuckle to themselves with a delicious feeling of superiority when they put something unexpectedly extra on the ball, as for example...
...going to march in without treaty formalities? With only a few minutes to spare, the Soviet Minister to Estonia finally drove up to the Foreign Office, ratifications were exchanged and Foreign Minister Karl Selter expressed his perspiring relief. Next thing M. Selter knew, the Soviet Union calmly demanded an extra Red Army base in Estonia not mentioned in the Treaty...
Aboard the Emden his captives lived like kings. The larder was always full. Pet kittens, two pigs, some lambs, a pigeon, geese had the run of the ship. There was a band concert every afternoon. Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons...
...Beam headlights) for its three series: "Hydra-Matic Drive" (a fluid flywheel combined with an automatic transmission which eliminates the clutch pedal, leaves nothing for the driver's left foot to do but play with the headlight beam at night). Prices: $765 to $1,075 (Hydra-Matic, $57 extra). Low, racy, graceful, Olds has a new eight-cylinder Ninety and its Sixty & Seventy sixes...
...first half of the overtime the Harvard booters had the wind behind them, but a Williams rally prevented them from scoring. The final goal was made in nine minutes of the first extra period...