Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...
...support of his theory, Salter cites experiments by Psychologist C. V. Hudgins, who conditioned human subjects to contract the pupils of their eyes, first in response to a flashing light, then to a bell, then to the word "contract," then to the mere thought of the word "contract...
...paper has all equipment needed except the brains. It has photographic equipment in the form of a Speed Graphic and a well stocked darkroom. News men will be furnished with a gilt edged typewriter and busy board men may expect a well filled contract book which needs only a few signatures to make it shine...
There were 16 knockouts in the weeklong finals, the most professional job by French Seaman Marcel Cerdan. The wel terweight champion of prewar Europe twice floored U.S. Private Joe DiMartino of Bridgeport, Conn, before the damage was halted. Cerdan is already under post war contract with the Hollywood Stadium...
Approach to X-Day. Another main Baruch recommendation was on war-contract cancellation policy. The chief suggestion: that WPB and the services prepare an "X-Day Reconversion Plan" ("X-Day" being the day Germany folds up) that would establish 1) what civilian production should start first, 2) what industries and plants should get in on the ground floor...