Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While under contract no coach shall write for publication on the subject of athletics without first submitting for approval by the University authorities any articles intended for publication...
...failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean, it is said, repeated the slogan of General Petain and provoked rebellion...
...should be the aim of each University, as far as practicable, to have the coaching of all teams done only by members of its regular staff," that "no coach shall receive for his services any money or other valuable consideration except through the University authorities," and that "while under contract no coach shall write...
...optical office on the second floor above the drug store that is the social centre of Niles, Mich., Harry Wills, onetime stevedore, leaned his black bulk against a door-jam and watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened...
Promoter Tex Rickard. "I think Dempsey must be crazy.... I have what I consider an ironclad agreement with him to box Wills for me. I think I can hold him to this contract for an amount equivalent