Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what they have failed to do, our schools are in large measure responsible for this country's shameful record of crime." He deprecated the fact that today nationalism is developed, even in unsuspected subjects, as philology and geography. In general terms he developed the thesis that "it is in extra curricula activities that the secondary schools are now most effective not only in the clubs and assemblies, and the like, but also in the more or less intimate personal contacts of teachers with students which increasingly are provided for by instituting home-rooms and providing advisors...
...while "Plain Talk" is selling its extra editions and other periodicals are playing follow the lewder in the same field, Boston has lost sight of one essential fact. The mud that has been thrown at it could be hurled with equal and even more exactitude at the other metropolises of the East. It is absurd to say that Boston is the bawdiest of cities for it ranks only eighth in population. Unless "Plain Talk" can produce per capita statistics for indulgence in vice showing that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe...
Thrifty Germans weighed miles against marks, slow and cheap local trains against the several grades of German expresses, each with its slightly extra fare. Result reported last week: passenger train revenue did not bounce with the higher fares but slumped 16,000,000 marks...
Freight rates were also increased a year ago, and grudging but helpless shippers paid an extra 200,000,000 marks...
...Pullman Company was incorporated in 1867 by George Mortimer Pullman, and proved almost an instantaneous success despite the pessimistic opinion of railroad men who thought that the public would never pay the extra charge for Pullman's extra comfort. It was Pullman who substituted folding berths for lumber camp bunks, who introduced shock-absorbing springs, carpeted floors, uniformed attendants. Soon Pullman's Palace Cars had been adopted by the Michigan Central, the Great Western, the New York Central. Although many railroads attempted to install their own sleeping car service, Pullman Palaces, with constantly improved and patented features, were...