Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chosen a most unfortunate time to venture into a world where finance are, in the last analysis, the indicator of success and failure. If has chosen a time when the tendency is for students to be more and more preoccupied by their studies, and ever less interested in extra-curricular activities. Under intelligent and responsible direction which fully realizes the magnitude of the task which it is undertaking, there is, however, a good chance that the magazine will make itself a lasting part of the Harvard scene. The healthiest growths are those which thrive under adverse conditions...
...doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs; he can throw the property sordid glamour over Marline, the whore refusing a be in a flop-house because she intends to return to the respectability of the stage. Von Sternberg's fault is that...
...Bowl, without the extra wooden seats, accommodates approximately 71,000 persons, leaving 16,000 seats as yet unsold. These remaining tickets are on public sale in New York City, and therefore no report has been submitted as to how many have been sold. Last year, when the game was played at the Harvard Stadium, which seats over 57,000 persons, a capacity crowd attended...
...Higgins is a neighbor of the Squire of Krum Elbow. Everyone laughed at his question which was thoroughly facetious. Mrs. Higgins' sons are 9 and 7. "I lost five pounds in the campaign and I'm proud of my figure. Look here. There's nothing extra in there," he had said to the clerk in the town hall while waiting for four other voters to pull the levers on the machine before he did. "You must have been sitting up pretty late [to hear his speeches] while I was in California. The time is so much different...
...Charles Conklin, a farmer of Sussex, N. J., has a bantam rooster with four wings. The extra flippers are attached to the rooster's legs. When the fowl runs he kicks up as much dust as a rotary plow and when he hops into the air he looks like a biplane...