Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters of inquiry on it. But the other 47 States are more than likely to wait until they see whether Nebraska's experiment justifies the unicameralists. Bicameralists claim that one house acts as a check to prevent the other from hasty action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative buck-passing: what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto by the Governor. Although bicameralists argue that one chamber will be easier to corrupt than two, unicameralists expect exactly the opposite because...
Extremely profitable to themselves, the Quins' cherubic features are not, however, the gold mine for NEA that might be supposed. NEA gives them to the 710 clients of its regular feature service at no extra charge, and now at a cost to itself of about $100,000 a year. Hearst thought the new $50,000 was too high, so NEA hurried around last week placing new Quin contracts. Takers included the Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Detroit News and, for exclusive U. S. magazine rights, TIME...
...respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully echoed Seattle, "but a great many common colds." Denver, without announcing the number of influenza cases, told school children that they would have an extra week of Christmas vacation. Finally, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen observed: "Those who take care of themselves aren't dying. The epidemic hasn't yet reached the virulence of 1918. It is, however, the worst since...
...Year is in at last, and at this festive time all the pronouncements of the clergy and of the scribes, not excluding the wise cracking of Mr. Westbrook Pegler are concentrated with considerable unanimity on the current extra-curricular activities on the Iberian peninsula. And with all the nations of the continent winning battles on the playing fields of Spain, with British battleships clearing their decks and with British statesmen expressing "concern", the Dagos are providing very sensational entertainment indeed...
...Besides, the wisdom of being happy about the New Year is doubtful. Better to wish a Happy Mid-Year's or a Merry Reading Period... The Vagabond ambles aimlessly, until he meets with a Radcliffe friend... A story of the Radcliffe freshman who, in the act of stealing an extra week's vacation, writes the dean that she is awfully sick and encloses--incidentally--a five pound box of candy... Later hear more gossip about clever means of lengthening vacations. Exciting is the case of an undergraduate who times his return to college so well that his train...