Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right smack on a tack I woodn't aben more surprized then I wuz ter larn how many TIME readers wuz former apple butter stirrers. Why, shucks, th' mailman thot Xmas was here already, jedgin from th' extra letters he's had ter deliver...
Last month in Hollywood RKO Production Head Sam Briskin sent to Warner Brothers' Producer Sam Bischoff an extra player who posed as a financier, went through the motions of making a deal to buy Producer Bischoff's pet electric razor business. Last week Producer Bischoff sent to Production Head Briskin Extra Players Pat Daly, Frank Jaquet, Bill Teelaak who posed as U. S. Congressmen Martin of Mass., King of Utah, Tydings of Maryland; sent with them a Warner Brothers cameraman who posed as a newspaper photographer. Production Head Briskin posed with the three spurious Congressmen (see cut), blushed...
Last week's 36,000 spectators gasped when flashy Halfback Andy Uram, who beat Nebraska almost singlehanded last year, missed a try for extra point after Minnesota scored a first-quarter touchdown. Minnesota made just two more fatal blunders. At the beginning of the second quarter Bill Matheny let the ball bounce out of his hands, Nebraska recovered it on Minnesota's 24-yd. line, plunged through for its first touchdown. At the .start of the fourth, after Minnesota had scored a field goal, Substitute Harold Van Every fumbled a punt, Nebraska's Bill Callahan , grabbed...
...whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren County folk had "fired guns into the air" to discourage the Glascock raiders. This looked like a good folksy picture story to Photographer Keen, who proceeded to play it for what it was worth - and a little extra...
...realized that the mountain must go to Mohammed, and by that realization the Debating Council has taken a position in the forefront of undergraduate organizations today. For today in an age when students come to college primarily to study, more than ever before, no extra-curricular activity can succeed unless it has something material to offer the student. The student has little to offer the activity. If he cannot "play on the team", it is not worth his while to leave his books...