Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked to form the new student Council are prominent in extra-curricular activities. Brainard is chairman of the Adams House committee and a member of the Adams House swimming team. In his freshman year he was a member of the swimming squad. Lewis was a Class Officer in his Freshman year and last year was a member of the Student Council...
...substitute Princess for $10,000. Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess...
...Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke my fast...
Princeton men respect and like Tyler Dennett, find his lectures good fun. He is tall, thickset, blue-eyed, and his close-cropped hair is beginning to grey around the temples. A quick smile keeps extra wrinkles in his wrinkled, ruddy face. He has to wear glasses when he motors or reads, takes them off for lectures. When he is not writing diplomatic history he likes to paint, fish, photograph, putter around the house. No carpenter or plumber is ever needed by the Dennett household. Father of four, he got his two eldest sons to help him put up the family...
...companies walked out three weeks ago, leaving Clevelanders to depend upon some 700 independents for their entire supply. In one day 27 doctors complained that they had run out of gasoline while making calls. Last week panic-stricken motorists rushed to filling stations with cans and jugs for extra supplies as the independents threatened to stop pumping too. Promptly at midnight 689 independents shut down, did not reopen...