Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's most distinguished contemporary poet, Professor Hillyer has the distinction of being one of the few speakers at the Tercentenary whose address will not receive advance publication by the University News Office. At present the poet is under contract to the Atlantic Monthly, which also plans to print his Phi Beta Kappa work...
Shocked at Owens' lack of commercial acumen was Marty Forkins, who signed a one-year contract with Owens to handle all his business and personal affairs. Snapped he: "Owens made his political statement without my permission. I did not know he was going to Republican Headquarters or I would have stopped him. He absolutely will not enter into any political campaigning...
...original contract for the Canton-Hankow Railway was let by the Imperial Manchu Government in 1898 to American...
...beamed and pumped the hands of newshawks, eagerly posed this way and that way for photographers, put their arms around the shoulders of friends, rubbed their palms with satisfaction. A chance observer might have mistaken them for a team of tumblers jumping about in jubilation at having signed a contract to appear in the floor show of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. But their destination was not the Lake front but State Street. Henceforth Chicago's great shopping street-long distinguished with the names of such merchants as Marshall Field and Carson Pirie Scott & Co.-will be blazoned with...
...shoppers who could afford quality goods would not be caught in the Davis Store on a bet. After ups and downs and changes of management, Davis lost, all told, some $3,500,000. Thus when Field's chairman, James O. McKinsey, last week put his signature to a contract conveying the Davis Store to Morris, Nathan, Louis & Joseph Goldblatt (for a carefully concealed price), Mr. McKinsey was, in effect, relieving his firm of a bucket with a hole in the bottom of it. Well did the Goldblatts know it. Nevertheless, this entry into State Street was a crown...