Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a secretive alliance with the pituitary gland. That small, oval, reddish-gray body, appended to the brain, is made up of two separately active lobes. The rear one exudes a valuable drug, which has been ingeniously injected to speed heartbeat, to increase blood pressure, or to make muscles contract. It is used in cases of surgical shock, in obstetrics, after abdominal surgery...
...inclination or aptitude for warfare, and indifferently watches his warrior father fare forth to battle, return victorious; fare forth again, return defeated; fare forth a third time to fetch Princess Guzisur, Temugin's 14-year-old affianced bride. On the journey the old man dies. The sworn marriage contract is broken, for of what use is fatherless Temugin as an ally? Ignoring the insult, an old minister of state tricks halfhearted vassal princes into allegiance to Temugin, and year after year the youth leads them into desultory warfare with faint glory and inconsiderable plunder...
...price of the Red Book will be $4, similar to that of the 1930 Red Book. On the other hand the book will contain about 30 more pages than the publication of last year, according to the editors. The printing contract has been awarded to the Andover Press, of Andover, while the half tones will be done by the Electric City Engraving Company, of Buffalo...
...have not gone through a legal ceremony. ... I do not consider that marriage ought to be the subject of legal contract. It is far too intimate and personal a matter for that. . . . My union with my husband is entirely free. ... I believe that the tendency of the future is in this direction, and that posterity will see nothing remarkable in our decision...
Ryan formed in 1912, owns 95% of the electric light and power resources of Montana; it sells current to Mr. Ryan's greater company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...