Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginning in 1893, a printing contract with the Crimson Printing Company was signed. From then on, the company supplied printers, linotype machines and a press to accompany the Crimson in its moves to 1304 Massachusetts Avenue, in 1805, to the Union, in 1901, and finally to the present establishment in which the two organizations work as close neighbors...
National and world news first began to be brought into the Crimson offices via the teletype in March 1934. It used to be claimed that Harvard's own newspaper had the smallest and cheapest professional news service in the country, thanks to United Press. The first contract, lasting for about two years, ran under the pretentious head, "Salients in the Day's News...
Operating under a contract with the officer of Scientific Research and Development the local laboratory marshalled a staff of 460 persons. including 125 college-trained scientists recruited from all over the united States to play a part in devising instruments for the Navy to detect and sink enemy submarines...
Marie McDonald, who claims exclusive rights to the nickname "The Body" (see cut), had contract trouble with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg. She sued to cancel, but Stromberg brought to court a letter he thought proved that he and she were on fine terms. The letter opened "Dear Daddy S.," and informed him she had the measles. "They wanted to take pictures of my spots," she wrote, "but I drew the line. After all!" Signed: "The Spotted Body...
Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...