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Word: contract (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contract or "Trial" Marriage (see TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that the World-Telegram would negotiate in the "hope and expectation" of arriving at a contract which would "definitely and specifically recognize the Newspaper Guild of New York as the chosen bargaining agent of the World-Telegram employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Guild Gain (Cont'd) | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Neither the law of the country nor the law of his religion would forbid a second wife. In Albania, the signing of the marriage contract by the bride's father and by the groom, makes a marriage. It is legal and binding. There is, however, another law relating to marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously, or 2) the drug quickly diffuses into the blood stream and loses its local anesthetic effect. To overcome the bad features of cocaine and procaine, anesthetists use them in conjunction with epinephrine (also called adrenalin) which makes capillaries contract and holds the anesthetic at the spot where it is needed. But epinephrine throws some people into twitters. It may not be used intravenously or intraspinally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epicaine | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...week estimated to be in its sixth million and selling faster than ever, gave Bulls & Bears a pre-publication sale of 100,000, largest on record for a new game. Parker Brothers expect it and a more morbid diversion called Jury Box to be the major new rivals to contract bridge for 1937. Trend in U. S. games demonstrated by both Bulls & Bears and Jury Box is realism, which recurs in parlor sports at 30-year intervals. Monopoly, based on real-estate tradings, and G-men, invented by onetime G-Man Melvin Purvis, were the first non-escapist parlor sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1937 Games | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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