Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form, under diminutive Clinton D. McKinnon, a shrewd newsman who pyramided a string of Southern California throwaway shopping papers into the million-dollar San Diego Journal (which he recently sold). He offered to take over from Field if the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild unit would abandon its tough PM contract and meet his tough terms, including the right to hire & fire at will for three months. The reported price tag: $300,000 for plant & equipment...
Thwanted by the perennial handicaps of a Sanders production, the Dramatic Club yesterday landed a contract with Boston's Majestic Theater for their spring offering of "The Survivors...
Nonsense, retorted Al (Li'l Abner) Capp. "Comic strippers are storytellers. . . . Dickens might have written in comic books if he could have gotten a contract...
Delegates hailed the agreement with such high-sounding phrases as "the first multilateral long-term contract in history." But a wheat agreement had been signed by 22 nations in 1933, and had proved unworkable. Besides, this one was not yet a contract. Before it becomes one, it must be approved by Congress and the other governments concerned. And as long as wheat remains high (current cash price: around $2.50 a bushel), the U.S. farm bloc will bitterly fight any attempt to put it under a $2 ceiling...
Isaiah Bowman kept Johns Hopkins' undergraduate program-two years of general education, then two years of study in one of foUr special "groups" (physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, the humanities). For him, every educated man had a private contract with society: "To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more ... is to be noble...