Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought our contract called for the equivalent in rubles of $3,900 a month for acting in Russia." snapping-eyed Miss Mangean told Moscow correspondents. "Actually what they pay us seems to be worth about $121 a month, or less than $1 a day for each...
15th Century Portraits. Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...
Feeling that it must bow to the demands of a number of students, most of whom belong to Clubs, the University makes it possible to contract for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one meals per week, according to individual choice. But the grotesqueness of the rates, twenty-one meals costing $8.50 while fourteen meals cost $7.25, leads one to believe that, by means of making the saving ridiculously trivial, the University hopes to discourage students from joining Clubs...
...country runs no risk by releasing itself from its obligations, and if a treaty-breaking State is to be encouraged by impunity," concluded France, "that is equivalent to abolishing the whole idea of contract and obligation. . . . There would soon be no room for any policy but one, force." Within 24 hours Germany had put enough pressure on the all but defenseless Scandinavian countries to transform their Foreign Ministers at Geneva into ardent lobbyists against any Council action which might impute even blame to Germany. Meanwhile Swiss defectives claimed to have unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France...
...Adolph Eckstrom, 37, her Manhattan coach; in New City, N. Y. last month. Miss Talley's first marriage, to Pianist Michael Raucheisen, also her coach, was annulled in 1933. Last week she and her husband were on their way to California, where she has a five-year cinema contract with...