Word: extra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With tumult and with shouting Pedagog French's friends and disciples, old and new, came to his aid. The Corporation solemnly convened, voted to create an extra professorship for him, submitted the proposal to the English board. Again and astoundingly came the negative vote, four to three. President James Rowland Angell accepted Pedagog French's resignation, with customary expressions of regret. The triumph of Research over Teaching seemed complete...
...players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on a sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly-are variations of this Green game, but experts shun them. Very serious and sleek in his neat tuxedo, his dead-white face immobile as plaster in the strong light, his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf...
...Calendar to supersede the old lunar one. in this calendar every other month had 31 days, the rest 30, except February which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated...
Transcontinental Air Transport announced last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...
Either there should be a revision in the system of travelling time to take care of cases such as that of the foregoing illustration, or the college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...