Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...periods. Then the Chinese team pulled itself together. Leong blocked Sim Nambu's punt on Japan's 8-yd. line, and Charley Hing slashed to a touchdown. Another blocked kick and Hing went over again. With the score 13-to-12 against them, the Chinese tried for extra point by a forward pass, Gunn to Got. Bill Got gathered in the ball on the goalline, was tackled and thrown back. The officials called it good, and the Chinese burst into a frenzied cheer. A mob of excited Japanese surrounded the officials, who changed their minds, awarded the game...
After their defeats by Dartmouth and Princeton, the Crimson hoopsters are far from favorites, and are meeting a very strong defensive outfit in the Pennsylvanians. The Quakers are considered to be one of the leading contenders for the Eastern Intercollegiate crown, and are fresh from three days extra practice during the holidays. However the revamped Crimson lineup, and the long period of rest since the Princeton game is expected to benefit Harvard...
...being chalked up on El Pueblo's bulletin board that the police had to be called out. Though it was afternoon El Pueblo, confident that no other Montevideo paper could get the story, announced with the dignity of a Dictator's newsorgan that it would print no extra, that the public would have to wait for El Pueblo's regular edition next morning to learn the details, but that "the conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay has been settled...
...lepers of the world-sick, homeless, many of them blind, and crippled as well. At 170 lonely leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants of the most needy and helpless people on the face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very...
...first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends most. It had taken much bullying from tall Mrs. Ickes, Illinois legislator, to pack him off to the hospital when he limped into his office after his fall...