Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much is the beauteous daughter of a deposed Caliph worth? How much for his cousin who is also the great granddaughter of the late Turkish ex-Sultan Murad V? Right up to the moment when the double marriage contract was signed in Caliph Abdul Medjid's villa last week, furiously polite Oriental haggling continued over the terms...
Maguire's attitude towards "the greatest of American games" is best summed up in a characteristic epigram: "One defeat a season is good for the coach's soul. Two defeats are bad for his contract." Money, of course, means nothing to the builder...
...Spalding's election follows closely upon the death of his father, James Walter Spalding, chairman of the board. Golfer Jones, who acquired a block of Spalding stock with his Spalding contract this summer, will be "directly connected with Spalding's research laboratories at Chicopee, Mass., where golf implements are devised." Albert Spalding is celebrated as a violinist...
...raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Her father had died while she was away...
Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...