Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population in 150 years...
Thomas is proud of his varied activities, mum on how much they add to his bank roll. Good guess at his annual earnings would be $200,000. Of this, $15,000 goes to Buranelli, $5,000 to Sherwin. The remainder helps Thomas to run his estate on Quaker Hill in New York's Dutchess County, where he lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra...
...such things continue to happen in modern football. As Bob Zuppke of Illinois once said when illustrating the folly of making one team a heavy favorite over another, "Don't discount the fact that a football is of peculiar shape and sometimes bounces funny." He went on to add that football games are decided 60 per cent on the comparative ability of the two teams and 60 per cent on their respective mental attitudes for the game. So you can't pick a winner for any game...
Cameron Bradley '37 of Southboro, Mass., vice-president of the Veteran Motor Car Club of America, spends his spare time collecting old automobiles. He has 16 pre-1910 models, and is trying to add to his collection...
...will be no end of new people to meet--President Conant, your janitor, the guy who lives next door, and maybe even your roommate. You'll soon see that there is to be unending variety in your four years here, and maybe you will wonder what it will all add up to when it is over. Those very Seniors walking by so confidently can give you the necessary clue. They may look self-assured, but they aren't. That is the best example of what your four years here will add up to. The meaning of the word education...