Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unqualified approval. Finally, we hold it nonsensical to attack those institutions which have made Yale what it is, however uneducational some may claim them to be. Hence, the traditional blast at the Senior Societies will not appear. The Junior Fraternition can expect our support. By and large we approve extra-curricular activities...
...According to the Legion, businessmen in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Maine, Nevada would profit in direct ratio to the spendings of Legionaries in their States. The mathematical argument for the Bonus is less simple. In 1924 Congress figured that veterans were entitled to $1 a day extra for service in the U. S., $1.25 overseas. Then Congress pretended that the whole sum had been set aside and invested as an endowment insurance policy to mature in 20 years. Thus with interest at 4% the sum was doubled by maturity. To this total for each veteran was then added...
...prize English sheep dogs, testified that since the court had told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...
...with wet salt dressings, found the benefits to his hands real. Pacific Ocean water seemed to do him more good than Atlantic water, which is less salty. "Now," wrote he last week. "I frequently go to sleep with a pair of cotton gloves on my hands, with a little extra padding over the back and fingers, soaked with either sea water or normal saline solution...
...board. Suave, meticulous S. Clay Williams left the presidency last spring to become vice chairman, was succeeded as president by Bowman Gray's brother James, who announced the earnings last week. Messrs. Gray and Williams produce no cigaret except Camel, but they can usually count on extra income from Reynolds Chewing tobacco (Schnapps, Micky, Brown's Mule, Day's Work) and from Prince Albert, fastest selling pipe tobacco...