Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been suggested for the calendar which Pope Gregory XIII gave the world in 1582, only two have any great current following. The International Fixed Calendar League, one of the hobbies of the late George Eastman, is for a year of 13 months with 28 days each, plus an extra holiday every Dec. 29 and a Leap Day on June 29 in Leap Years. The World Calendar Association favors a twelve month year with equal quarters in which the first, fourth, seventh and tenth months would have 31 days, the rest 30 days, plus a Year...
...calendar reform are few?"Sabbatarian" sects like the Seventh Day Adventists and pious Jews such as compose the L. S. F. S. A. P. E. C. R. Six days do they labor and do all that they have to do but the seventh they worship and rest. If one extra day alone were introduced into their year they would eventually be observing the Sabbath on weekdays while the rest of the world worked...
...expect at least five hundred mail orders?we had as many as 160 once before. We expect several hundred people to phone us their orders. We shall have six girls on the telephones ... a score of extra salesmen in our San Francisco store." The day of the great Samuels silver sale dawned cold and grey. Soon it began to rain. It rained all day. Enough patriotic San Franciscans went to Samuels' in slickers and galoshes to keep the extra crew of clerks busy. But as a record-breaking sale it was a wet, soggy flop...
There is no extra-curricular activity at Harvard which prepares a man of the particular task of the Ivy Orator. In the Lampoon there is a chance to be funny on paper. In the Debating Council there is a chance to be oratorical in person but nowhores are the two combined...
Instead of covering the shortage, Barry & Baiata soon approached Van Derck with a proposition for "financing" in the same manner a "Barry Special" train to the Carnera-Baer fight in Manhattan. That, they said, would net sufficient profits to pay off the $172 shortage, leave something extra for all. The "Barry Special" was a flop, and Clerk Van Derck, now into the bank for $1,100, was asked to finance two concessions at the Chicago Fair ? a Chinese Show in The Bowery and the Hall of Champions where a stable of broken-down fisticuffers pummeled each other nightly. Both...