Word: padding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many undergraduates who frequent the University Theatre deep mystery may surround the activities of a certain man who sits in the front row of the balcony, clutching a telephone and a pad...
...seems that at the first show of a new picture he occupies this exclusive seat. Should Gable articulate too loud, he buzzes once; should Harlow's whispers be too soft, he buzzes twice. On the pad a complete record is kept on the nature of the scene, on the intensity of sound. Next performance, the projection man follows instructions on a typewritten sheet...
Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...
...acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away on a yellow pad at his acceptance speech. He would have to be back in Topeka on July 6 for a special session of Kansas' Legislature to deal with social security but meanwhile, he declared, he was going to have a good time fishing, riding and maybe climbing a mountain...
Throughout the land last week, colleges named the faculties who would sit in summer session to teach earnest graduate students, roll up needed credits for delinquent undergraduates. As always, most were winter facultymen eager to pad out lean budgets by a warm month's work. A few, however, were notable pinch hitters called in from the world outside...