Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Jouett's Aviation School near Hangchow over 200 definitely top-notch Chinese fighting flyers were developed by intensive training and ruthless examinations which made enemies of many a Chinese general and politico whose air-ambitious son was flunked out. This year when Colonel Jouett's contract expired, Generalissimo Chiang declined to renew it, has now turned his air force over to native officials and Italian experts under Rome's suave General Lordi. This switch resulted directly from efforts by Benito Mussolini over a period of years. In 1934 II Duce flattered Generalissimo Chiang by accrediting...
Even if his radio contract is not for a full year (they are generally signed with 13-week cancellation clauses) teh arithmetic is still pretty obvious. Mr Nichols may not know that an income of 1,500 per year is considered pretty fancy stuff by most of what he calls "the American public" and the fact that they consider him and his associates "a wealthy group" can scarcely be called laboring under a delusion...
Said President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers: "This contract is entirely satisfactory...
...Colgate's Spartan, white-haired President George Barton Cutten told his students : "The greatest sinners are probably the philanthropists and the doctors. They have done everything they could to keep the unfit. Nature provides immunity to certain diseases by eliminating all those who contract the diseases. Now we have a protected race rather than a resistant race." Of social legislation: "Nothing could threaten the race as seriously as this. It is begging the unfit to be more unfit and inviting the fit to join the ranks of the unfit...
...Courses such as Government 1 and Economics A have engaged new section men to handle their huge numbers. Fields suffering decreases, such as the Sciences and Philosophy, will retain all section men who are under contract...