Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving pirate has raided the community. All that is needed to complete the picture is a black flag flying from the radiator of his motor truck. Careless undergraduates who left last spring with-out, making definite contracts to have their furniture moved are now being charged out of all reason. The work has been done and the contractor finds himself in a well-nigh impregnable position. He urges that he has fulfilled his contract, and that the time of payment is at hand...
Here is a situation which deserves the intervention of the authorities. It would be a matter of no great difficulty for the college to give one firm a contract for all student moving, at a specified price for each piece of furniture. The amount of work to be done would make such a contract profitable, and would reduce greatly the cost to the individual student. And the moving could be charge on the term bill on the report of the hall janitor, just as readily as the telephone and electric light bills...
...Government decided to allow advertising on its postage stamps. The concession is to be granted to private companies, who must hand over to the Treasury 60% of their earnings, guarantee a yearly minimum, bind themselves to a three-year contract. An official bulletin invited firms to take advantage of the concession...
...view of the recent trouble it seems unlikely that Martin will return although he has completed only four months of his four-year contract. Whether the Track Advisory Committee's report favored his return is still a mystery but recent statements would seem to indicate such was not the case...
...Winsor's return to the coaching ranks of Harvard is but temporary, until the Hockey Advisory Committee can locate some younger coach to succeed him. He has offered his services voluntarily and will coach the 1924 hockey team without salary or contract...