Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official delegates is one Chief of State: President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland. There are eight Prime Ministers, 20 Foreign Ministers, 80 assorted Finance and other Cabinet Ministers and heads of central banks. Potent foreign statesmen in London are by no means limited to the official delegates. At least one extra King will be there, lean, white-chinned Feisal of Irak, come to watch proceedings, coach his delegates from the sidelines, and renew his acquaintance with two of Britain's most photographed beauties: Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, who visited his arid kingdom unescorted last November...
...they will band together with a Yale team to meet the combined Oxford-Cambridge forces on July 13, 14, and 15. On this occasion, three men will be selected from each college, thus making two six-man teams, although each college will be allowed to keep in reserve one extra player. At present there is some doubt as to who will play in number two position, both Arensberg and Ray contesting for the position...
...space would have occurred, however, even if prices had been reduced, due to the unusually large number of men admitted to the Class of 1936. Anticipating that many of the incoming class would be forced to leave college due to current financial difficulties, the Committee on Admissions accepted an extra number of applications last fall. The failure of this prophecy to be fulfilled was the chief cause of the present situation...
...clattering wooden geta the little old men who act as newsboys in Tokyo ran through the streets last week shouting an extra. It was the first direct word that either Japan or China had had of an event that seeped to the rest of the world several days earlier: truce and cessation of Chinese-Japanese hostilities in North China...
...with lack of iodine in the system. Dr. David Marine proved this by feeding Akron school children iodine twice a year from 1916 to 1919 and practically eliminating goiter from that bedeviled community. Most specialists work on the assumption that, for deficiency of iodine, the starved thyroid must work extra hard and grow bigger. On the other hand. Colonel Robert McCarrison from evidence he gathered in the Punjab is certain that germs in drinking water indirectly cause goiter. Iodine in drink or food, he believes, kills such germs in the intestines...