Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone reading the report . . . can but gather that those children who are unfortunate enough to contract heart weakness in consequence of a bout with rheumatic fever have only a slight possibility of living more than approximately 15 years longer. No other interpretation is possible. If literally true its import would be indeed calamitous...
...slipshod, not shoddy, but strictly accurate was TIME'S report of Dr. Cohn's statement concerning the average age at which sufferers contract rheumatic fever, and the average age at which Death comes. Sources for all Dr. Cohn's statements may be found in a paper by DeGraff & Lingg in the April issue of American Heart Journal. In Dr. Cohn's opinion, "the trouble with the U. S. public is that they cannot understand the meaning of adjectives, and particularly the word 'average...
Last month a slender, exuberant blonde of 33 sailed from Manhattan with a gold medal around her neck, a Spanish husband in tow and a contract for three operatic performances at London's historic Covent Garden. Grace Moore had won the medal for her cinema performance in One Night of Love. Her Covent Garden contract was signed because Londoners were ready to buy camp stools, wait in line 24 hours for tickets to see and hear this U. S. singer...
...taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...
Prime basis for the demand was that he had procured Army aircraft through negotiated contract instead of competitive bids. Among other things, he was charged with "dishonesty, gross misconduct, inefficiency, inaccuracy, unreliability, incompetency, mismanagement." Major General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, promptly stripped General Foulois of most of his powers, turned them over to Lieut.-Colonel Frank Maxwell Andrews as commander of the newly-organized General Headquarters Air Force...