Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...omit departmental slang* from their reports and to use "every day" language instead (TIME, Oct. 31), last week issued a statement to his subordinates urging them to see that letters stamped for special delivery should really be specially delivered. He pointed out that the Special Delivery stamp is a contract between the mailer and the U. S. He invited public criticism of the special delivery service in future. Quite as notable as the frankness of the statement, which implicitly admitted a shortcoming of the Department, was the statement's language. First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett practiced what...
...smacked her lips when they failed and ordered their execution. Came the Unknown Prince (Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi) who, prompted by love, guessed loudly & right, won her iciest fury in return. The duel went on: Let her discover his identity before daybreak if she would be released from the contract of her own making: Ruthlessly, murderously, she probed her investigation, but midnight and the warm beauty of the Palace Garden took the Unknown One's part, won her, led her to trumpet his name as Love to all Peking...
...there are Myles Lane at Dartmouth, Bruce Caldwell at Yale, Oosterbaan at Michigan, Wilson at West Point, Flanagan at Notre Dame, Drury at Southern California and others. But no one at whom the mob may scream: "Long Live the King"; not one yet good enough to get a cinema contract...
...exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune. Discarding a possibility of deserting the traditional building, the proprietors decreed a new pressroom. In quarters so cramped that two famed manufacturers refused the contract, an entirely new equipment has been laboriously installed. New presses; the moving of a colossal switchboard required the encroachments of a subway under one corner of the structure; a redesigned paper storage cavern stretching far under Brooklyn Bridge were bit by bit purchased, made room for and set scientifically...
...cool air. The cure would be to hold warm water in the mouth to reduce inflammation. The symptoms in the second case (that of a dead nerve) are a sore tooth, sore to bite on, and a steady grumbling pain, not severe. In this case try cold water to contract the gas evolved by putrefaction...