Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their request. Aware of the handicapping features of total support, the Band is asking only for a sum to cover its Cornell and Princeton trips, predicting that record sales and concert incomes will take care of home expenses. Asking for partial aid permits them to retain some semblance of extra-curricular freedom...
...This article marks the inauguration of a new Crimson editorial feature. It is intended, in the first place, to provide more complete coverage of various extra-curricular organizations and events than has been accomplished in the past. In the second place, the feature will attempt to present the sort of informal, personal view of the various activities that is impossible under the restrictions customary to unsigned news stories. Consequently, 'The Walrus Said' will express the views and impressions of the authors, and will not necessarily represent the opinion of the Crimson...
Carefully, Dewey dealt out $56 million more for education, $20 million extra for a cost-of-living raise for state employees. He allotted $54 million for increased costs of social welfare, but observed tartly: "The investigation of public welfare administration in New York City raises serious question as to whether irresponsible local administration is not to blame. . . ." He firmly drew the line against any but the "most urgent" construction and public works projects...
...creators are sure by now that all will be well. Soon, Hubble will take his first photograph of the depths of space. It will be a historic night - an extra-clear night with the sky velvety black and the stars, though bright, twinkling hardly at all. Hubble will go into the observatory after dusk, rise to the big round telescope chamber in a push-button elevator...
...offered to redouble their rooms; their sacrificing spirit is costing them money as well as comfort. To take an example, the base rent of an average triple is $125 and of a double $175. Assuming both suite have four post-war occupants, and that $40 is added for each extra man, simple arithmetic shows the men in the doubled suite are paying five dollars more. In other words, it is more expensive for four men to live in a double suite than in a triple. Four hundred undergraduates are victims of this mathematical consistency...