Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed them on their last western trip, brought them home with a chance for the pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager...
...TIME woods are not already filled with good indexers or would-be indexers, I offer to contract to do the job. But whether you accept or reject my idea I shan't cancel the boss's subscription, or discontinue reading TIME...
Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...
...Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor, Mr. R. F. Johnston, he escaped the guard set over him by Feng, fled to the Japanese concession...
...Stillman emotional experience can be serene. Into this idyllic union of feminine wealth and feminine daring came the disturbing arm of the law. Fraulein Rasche's former backers, suddenly emerging from anonymity, frankly revealed themselves as Harold W. Hartwell and the Hollis Corporation. They disclosed a contract with the aviatrix, obtained an injunction preventing her from flying away in the Stillman sky-blue Bellanca...