Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twelve-year-old Jackie Lillie of Kinsman, Ohio sold his sorrel pony, Cocoa, to pay for his mother's funeral. At a horse sale in Jamestown, Pa., buyers returned Cocoa to Jackie with an extra...
More Payload. Vickers-Armstrong claims that the Viscount 700, the first turboprop airliner to pass its structural aerodynamic tests, has already proved itself superior to comparable airplanes powered with piston engines. It burns more fuel, but it carries a ton of extra payload because of the lightness of its engines. It cruises at 325 m.p.h. with 40 passengers, and is designed for short or medium runs, such as London-Paris and London-Rome...
...inadequate did most of the teachers find their salaries that nearly one-half had to work during the summer. Thirty-nine percent said they also took extra jobs during the school year...
...last week the "extra" bells in Tokyo newspaper offices jangled urgently. The best & biggest news since the occupation came clacking over the teletypes from Washington, D.C.: the U.S. had renounced all further reparations claims on Japan. It was the most striking proof the West had yet offered that it had abandoned its postwar policy of keeping Japan on her knees, seriously meant to rebuild Japan's shattered economy...
Natural Sciences 4, inaugurated last year, was limited to freshman and sophomores this year. It deals historically with case-histories in chemistry, physics, geometry and astrology. Extra lectures in the Theory of Relativity, the Quantum Theory, and Atomic Physics were given in the course occasionally...