Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincolns must be delivered in Russia, according to the contract, by Red May Day, when the Soviet tourist season opens. The roster of the rich who went to Russia last year included Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, many a Junior Leaguer, many a Social Registrite...
Types III and IV are usually present in the mouths of healthy people, become noxious under certain conditions of disability. For some reason doctors and nurses seldom contract pneumonia from their patients. But others may contract the disease in such numbers that an epidemic develops. Sunlight kills all types of pneumococci very rapidly (within iJ hours). In dark rooms the germs may live and infect for ten days...
...wondered when the vacation of Vice President and General Manager Winfield R. Sheehan would end, if at all. Edward Richmond Tinker who suddenly became president of Fox last November after a long career as a banker with Chase National, left Manhattan for his first official visit to Hollywood. Certain contract cancellations on his part caused much bitter comment on the lots. Undertone to all Fox gossip was the story that William Fox will again obtain control of his company...
Although featured by casualties that occurred during, as well as before the game, the contest was a spectacular one, Harvard playing fast, well-planned hockey and Dartmouth, in contract, relying chiefly upon sheer strength and individual effort. As was to be expected, the Hanoverians laid special emphasis upon body checking and the strategy wan productive numerous spills and penalties. On one occasion, there were only two Dartmouth players on the ice in addition to the goal-tender, Hawkes. The latter, it might be added, more than did his share in defending the Big Green net, handing out numerous checks...
...Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband shared with the Zenatellos. She cancelled her contract to pay them 15% of her earnings, discharged them as her agents...