Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runway. Into it stepped lanky, 29-year-old William P. Odom, round-the-world speed champion (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), dressed in a splashy tie, double-breasted suit and Homburg hat. Odom had managed to cram 300 gallons of gasoline into his red-and-silver monoplane, some in extra tanks on his wings and some in his cabin...
...Houses are not planning to deconvert next year, and will maintain their current level of one extra man for every two. Even counting on the enrollment drop, they can take less than half of the freshmen class...
This is an old ruling that was dropped during the war, when substitutes could always be found. A student still won't have to pay extra rent if he leaves at mid-terms, or if a substitute takes his place in the room...
Harvard is pretty well turned out and the gullible already belong to one or more pyramids. Then the top man suggested that maybe we could slow everything down a day and thereby have an extra 24 hours in which to find recruits...
Higher costs of operation and failure of a drive for extra endowment funds were given as reasons for the increase. The rise in dormitory rates in the first in 12 years, and the jump in the general fee the first since...