Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sophomore from Honolulu, who was allowed to count her cinemacting as school work. From the time she comes wide-eyed up the winding drive to the luxurious hilltop estate of the late founder William Van Duzer Lawrence in Bronxville, N. Y., until she self-consciously reads her senior "contract" (thesis) to critical classmates, Joan untiringly shows off Sarah Lawrence's progressivism...
...expelled from France, that she was a Nazi spy. She now claims that Lord Rothermere persuaded her not to sue the Paris paper for damages, promising to defend her honor in his newspapers. She charges that he failed to do so, and was thus doubly guilty of breach of contract...
...interference had some good effect on both sides. At a later get-together with Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey, C. L O.'s Frankensteen backslapped Chrysler's Weckler, who beamed right back at Mr. Frankensteen. They had agreed on some minor provisions for a new bargaining contract but had yet to settle their prime differences: 1) whether the management alone should decide how hard & fast union men shall work, and 2) whether union men shall have first call on Chrysler jobs...
...behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another $30,000, this time by former Victor record manager, Eli Oberstein. Oberstein claims that he had a contract for Shaw's services with his new U. S. Record Company, and that Shaw broke it. Shaw replies that "duress, fraud, and false intent" were employed in getting him to sign the contract...
...system steams up when the body signals full speed ahead. During an attack of angina, a patient shows all the outward signs of "sympathetic overactivity" except one. He perspires, his stomach expands, his heart throbs in violent tempo. But for some reason his coronary blood vessels, instead of expanding, contract. In this perverse, mysterious contraction, believes Dr. Raney, lies the key to the secret of angina pectoris...