Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
Nine years ago Signer Guiseppe Danise came to the U. S. from Salerno, Italy, under contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company, leaving Signora Danise and two bambinos behind...
Last week the Department of Labor prepared to urge the deportation of Baritone Danise on the ground of moral turpitude.* Baritone Danise was living in Manhattan with the present Signora Danise and their two bambinos. Prosperous, still under contract with the Metropolitan, he said: "I am grateful for the opportunities which America has given me. It would break my heart to leave...
That is a spirillum that lives in the blood of rats and mice.† It causes the rodents no inconvenience. However when infected mice bite grown-ups or gnaw off the succulent fingers, toes, ears and lips of infants the attacked humans contract a shaking fever...
There are various ways of teaching "good citizenship"-presumably a major aim of education. In Scarsdale, N. Y., the schoolchildren who trip matutinally to the two elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor...