Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Distemper Is a disease which practically all dogs contract at some period of their lives, usually when young. It is highly contagious to other dogs, and high-bred canines are more susceptible to it than mongrels. The cause is a subject of dispute among veterinarians. The disease is fatal to about 30% of the cases where esanthematous (characterized by a skin eruption) and catarrhal symptoms occur, and to about 90% of the cases in which there are nervous symptoms present...
...cannot hold a contract from the Government and a Government office as well. It is believed, however, that Edsel Ford will sign the contract, if it is made. It is understood that Mr. Coolidge will let Congress decide the question. If the contract were refused to Mr. Ford through the President's intervention, the farmers might demand to know why they were denied Henry Ford and fertilizer. ¶ President Coolidge accepted an offer, made by Mrs. A. B. Calhoun of Atlanta, of a White House dog, an Airedale, half brother of Laddie Boy. ¶ To the National Council...
...Pennsylvania, in announcing that the anthracite strike was concluded to all intents and purposes, one week after it officially commenced. The Governor's four points for compromise and peace (TIME, Sept. 10) embodied chiefly a 10% increase of wages for the miners (instead of a 20% increase for contract miners and $2.00 a day for day workers, as demanded) and the abandonment of the check-off (demanded by the miners) . The eight-hour day had already been agreed...
...them, that they yielded only out of consideration for the public. As soon as a general agreement was reached, both parties entered a joint conference to settle the miners' lesser demands. A convention of the miners was called to meet at Scranton on Sept. 17 to ratify the contract so reached...
...Jeritza's contract with the Metropolitan allowed her to sing in Vienna during the off-season period. Jeritza returned from the amazing triumph of her first New York season, and during the closing weeks of opera in Vienna that Spring sang once more alongside of her old companion star, Piccaver. There was trouble now. The tenor held that the soprano, madly flushed with her New York success, had grown haughty and overbearing. She adopted the grand manner with the other singers, assumed dictatorship over the management of the company, called off rehearsals at her whim, delayed beginnings of performances, made...