Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boom-&-bust should be controlled by lowering tax rates, easing credit controls, starting public works (under private contract) whenever unemployment reaches 6% of the total labor force; when unemployment drops back to 4%, the process should be reversed. Another Stassen weapon: "Officially encouraged voluntary boycotts" against excessively high prices...
...doesn't take any earphones, at least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
Mulvihill, who is a University night watchman himself, always keeps H.U.E.R.A.'s Massachusetts Avenue office open to workers with grievances, but believes that most of them are based on employee misinformation. "I just show them the contract," he says, "and they see that the University has done nothing wrong...
Yardlings are being asked to pledge a subscription to the Freshman publication early this fall, as Maynard warned: "Requests for the yearbook which are received after the printing contract has been arranged cannot be filled, for the Committee is working with a limited budget which requires a single printing order...
Hungarian-born Conductor Halasz, a slight and dynamic man who has been in the U.S. eleven years, was given a contract to produce three operas. He inherited a rococo hall, a shoe-string budget (seats are $2.40 top, one-third the Met's) and a free hand. Says he: "Where there is no money, there is no interference from pocketbooks. The only thing that can save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen...