Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron at the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, wrote his signature on documents that meant "preliminarily accepted." At that moment she became Navy property and the contract for construction on her sister ZRS-5 became effective...
...comparatively few pictures for the last two years has helped her to retain an independent popularity, to thrive on the flattery of imitation. Once a soaper of chins in a Stockholm barbershop, she has already selected the island near Stockholm where she will live when retired from cinemacting. Her contract expires next year and Cinemactress Garbo, whose reluctance to become a member of Hollywood "society" baffles Hollywood, has not yet revealed her plans...
Stockbroker Whitney began carefully, quietly with the fundamentals and definitions of his subject. ("A short sale is nothing but a contract to deliver stock in the future.") He quoted the historic decision of the Supreme Court of the U. S., written by Liberal Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1905: "People will endeavor to forecast the future and to make agreements according to their prophecy. Speculation of this kind by competent men is the self-adjustment of society to the probable. . . . This court has upheld sales of stock for future delivery...
Harvard authorities have recently signed a four-year contract with West Point calling, as I understand it, for three games to be played at Cambridge and one game to be played at West Point. This being the case, the only way in which one can interpret the CRIMSON editorial is that certain irresponsible undergraduates are advocating that Harvard shall repudiate its contracts...
...unprecedented lack of palpable interest on the part of Harvard undergraduates in the last Army contest confirms, to clear the Harvard calendar of games with teams from institutions respected but whose representation on Soldiers Field is regarded as irrational. Unhappily the Harvard athletic authorities have signed a four-year contract with West Point thereby making impossible an immediate solution of this particular problem...