Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telescope also has another ailment. Complicated tests have proved that the edge of the mirror responds to temperature changes more quickly than the center. This makes the glass expand and contract unevenly, throwing the mirror's curvature out of whack...
...nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world's second-best-paid newsman, and its second-most-widely-syndicated columnist. (The yip-yippity-yip of his frenetic friend Walter Winchell has 200 more outlets, and pays about $140,000 a year better.) His fellow journalists...
...Soviets borrowed extensively from British, French, Swiss, and German law in formulating their own legal code, Berman continued. Therefore Soviet law curiously contains bourgeois terms such as contract and inheritance, even though its nature is decidedly socialistic. It does not bother with individual rights but has been set up as a means to administer the socialistic plan...
...much longer than a decade, been able to take for granted, as Americans take for granted, that the basic political order of the present is stable, and that all private calculations can be based on such an assumption. Thus the Chinese commercial class cannot make long-term contracts with confidence that the Chinese state will endure as long as the contract . . . Corruption thrives on these conditions, but corruption is but one aspect of the consequences. The tendency to milk the soil instead of conserving it, to spend before money loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead...
Rocky Graziano, ex-middleweight champ and boxing's perennial bad boy, had run out on his contract. The promoter, who had spent $9,000 in advertising the fight, was annoyed, and said so. Rocky's manager went hunting for his missing boy. When he found him in Brooklyn, he begged him to go back to California and fight. But Rocky said...