Word: filler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four filler pencils...
Possibly as a space filler, possibly as an outburst of immature student rhetoric there appeared in yesterday's (April 24) CRIMSON the perennial complaint about traffic in Harvard Square. It is high time that this subject be dropped. It makes for senseless, complaining small talk of a third rate variety. This hand-flapping oh-dear, oh-dear attitude of regarding a congested corner is not only obsolete and impractical, but even sissy. By compulsory exercise regulations every undergraduate has become somewhat of an athlete. We are a community of youth. The vigour of a well-played game may be experienced...
...Complete" news broadcast, including the customary newspaper filler, would be as thoroughly annoying to radio listeners as a broadcast of the "complete" contents of TIME. No thinking radio news agency wants to broadcast "complete" news any more than TIME wants a "cover-to-cover" broadcast...
...sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged products. Big producers use chicory. Little producers use roasted cereals. The coffee code specifies that when cereal is used for filler the package must be so labeled. No such notice is required for chicory fillers. The use of "that common abomination, the basing-point trick" works to the advantage...
...that the miscegenation which will solve our soft-pedalled race problem will produce a hybrid people of wit, ingenuity and capability not at all inferior to the smugly haughty pure Americano, and comely to boot. Point for point this black-and-tan show surpasses the usual run of stage filler offered in the movie mosques; this is said with full consciousness that "Harlem on Parade" is in places unduly dull, smutty, and often merely nerve-shattering...