Word: extras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows and necessitating window bars for safety...
Bowman-Biltmore. Smaller than the United but considerably more metropolitan is the Bowman-Biltmore chain. Manhattan units are the Commodore, Belmont and Biltmore. Extra-Manhattan units include the Westchester Biltmore, the Sevilla of Havana, the Miami Biltmore in Florida. Head of Bowman-Biltmore is John McEntee Bowman, lover of horses, master of showmanship...
...first New York Stock Exchange seat to be sold since the adoption of the 25% membership increase brought, last week, $625,000, the same figure as for the last seat sold prior to the increase. But last week's purchase included the seat with its extra one-fourth right; in other words, five-fourths of a seat was purchased. Thus a precedent was established for valuing each quarter-seat at $125,000 and a seat at $500,000. The seat was bought by Ferdinand A. Straus from Robert L. Leeds, Mr. Leeds purchased his seat early in January, paid...
...half of English A under any name as a requirement. Only men coming to college with an extremely poor foundation can get a return out of the labors of the first part of the course at all proportionate to its demands in effort and time. Its presence as an extra course among the other difficulties of the Freshman year makes it doubly burdensome. The changes it has undergone have limited and tried to tighten its sagging structure; but its usefulness, always dubious, has about disappeared: and its improved and specialized second part should offer sufficient elementary instruction...
...efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half of one percent of those who attend universities, he proposes to relegate to some secluded cloister where they could thumb the pages of forgotten manuscripts, unannoyed by the sound...