Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When taking election polls, Gallup has two extra headaches. Ever since the early days of the New Deal, it has been proved that the heavier the vote, the larger the Democratic percentage. Thus, to arrive at his final winning percentage, Gallup must estimate in advance how many voters will go to the polls. His other headache is doping out the electoral vote; in 1944 Ohio went Republican by only 2/10 of 1% of the ballots. His fondest dream is that Congress will some day abolish the Electoral College...
...past half century, three different city planners and countless commissions and boards have produced plans to beautify Ottawa, if not make it bigger. The net result: a few extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...
Like other Manhattan dailies, the Times was practicing-just in case the International Typographical Union called a strike. At an estimated cost of $20,000 a week, it had hired 350 typists and other extra help, and set up a special staff under Assistant Managing Editor Turner Catledge to iron the kinks out of the new process. The ironing had gone so well, not only on the Times but on the other dailies, that the worried I.T.U. last week made VariTyping a major issue...
...Dartmouth had a guy named Scully in their first midfield. He dodged his Crimson counterparts time after time to become the proverbial extra man. "Scully beat us," said Coach Maddux...
Convenience and economy are the chief arguments in favor of the proposed change. The difficulties of getting exams and instructors in two different places at the same time and the extra expense of duplicating rooms all point to joint examinations as a logical step...