Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Ellsworth R. Schindler, a Seneca Indian, was working last year in the Detroit plant of Ford Motor Co. he contracted with Contract Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess...
...lawyer, Robert M. Codd Jr. of Buffalo, explained that the whole proceeding against him was illegal. Since 1893 New York has had a law which says: ". . . no person shall maintain an action on a contract against any Indian of the . . . Seneca Nation . . . and every person who prosecutes such an action shall be liable to treble costs to the party aggrieved...
Beethoven's Second Symphony in D major begins the program. It was written at a time when the composer was undergoing physical and mental suffering in Heiligenstadt, where he had been sent because of his deafness. The first movement is full of outbursts and sudden silences in marked contract with the moral elevation of the second. The scherzo and finale show Beethoven's mischief and humor, racing as they do to a strange and noisy conclusion...
This underlying motif finds expression in the sinister blacks and purples of the costumes "Othello." In distinct contract are the gay and fanciful "Peter Pan" settings. In a few instances the author's vivid imagination carries him to the verge of the surrealistic. The lurid orange drapes and the swirling green backgrounds of his designs for "Salome" harmonize with the voluptuous sensuality of the dramatic action. Perhaps the ultimate in bizarre impressionism, however, appears in Sharpe's fantastic rendition of the "Dope Fiend's Dream." The artist here portrays the weird apparitions of the subconscious, blended together in a terrifying...
...useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat as much as possible. Crews were made up of professional fliers hired on contract, volunteers with more enthusiasm than experience, a few skilled men like Malraux's friend Abel Guidez, who brought down six Fascist planes in the early weeks of the war, was eventually shot down near Bilbao after he had left the air force and was flying a French commercial-line...