Word: extras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others who had had experience as telephonic operators but who did not need the positions in order to earn their support. In as much as these women did not arrange or expect to hold permanent positions but had merely seized upon the opportunity offered them of earning a little extra pin money, the necessary loss of their positions will not increase the number of unsupported unemployed...
...during the last decade in case the store could not renew its 21-year Fifth Avenue lease. He was happy to announce that the lease had been renewed. The fund to cover the cost of moving was no longer needed. Therefore he proposed that Lord & Taylor pay an extra special dividend of $1,500,000 ($50 per share). The directors scratched their chins, voted the $50 extra, a $2.50 quarterly, a $5 Christmas special, and adjourned...
...chlorophyll accumulates in certain cells of leaves called chloroplasts where it comes in contact with carbon dioxide in the air. When the sun is shining a molecule of proto-chlorophyll, stimulated by an atom of magnesium which holds it together, absorbs four quanta of energy from a sunbeam. The extra energy enables the proto-chlorophyll to attract carbon dioxide, kick off the oxygen which it does not require, absorb the carbon. At that instant the colorless proto-chlorophyll becomes chlorophyll and makes the grass green...
...Hutchinson at the time of the gift, was not sufficient to complete the Chapel, and so, after the foundations, walls, roofing and plastering had used up the funds, a year elapsed before sufficient money could be raised to finish the interior woodwork, pews etc. Whether Mrs. Holden gave the extra funds or not, is not known...
Difficulties in accomodating the men who are out for basketball have arisen at the Indoor Athletic Building because of the extra burden of Freshman basketball imposed on it by the closing of the Hemenway Gymnasium for college...