Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators did not get much satisfaction at the White House, at least they went forth with the appearance of it. They appointed Senator George Wharton Pepper to discover a child fit for adoption and to propose a contract under which it would be entirely severed from its former parent and made the Republican Party's very...
...Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting service, and signed a contract with him to conduct experiments for the Union Switch and Signal Co. From this meeting dates the growth of the present Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. George Westinghouse staked his fortune upon the development of alternating current equipment, and won. Gradually the inventions of the other brilliant inventors were acquired. Stanley...
Carroll will undoubtedly pitch. Already under contract with the Detroit Tigers, he is good enough, experts agree, to step into the major leagues today and be a big winner. Against him today Coach Slattery will use either Spalding or Toulmin, probably the former. The Crimson pitchers have not yet shown enough ability to make Harvard supporters sanguine, but the hunch persists that Spalding or Toulmin may do the expected, as Young did last year and Goode two years ago, and check the Purple intake...
...Forfeiture of lease for nonfulfillment of contract...
...chiefly among cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by the appearance of an eruption of vesicles on the mucous membranes of the mouth, the udder, or the delicate skin between the hoofs. When the vesicles break, a contagious liquid runs out, transmitting the disease from animal to animal. Man may contract it from intermediary objects, from direct contact with the infected animals, or from their milk. The disease often occurs among milkers and handlers of cattle. It is mild and not fatal...