Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Ely Culbertson, P. Hal Sims, and most other famed contract experts, the Four Aces admit that they are the best bridge players, individually and collectively, in the world...
...famed Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, in which perpendicular beams of light were raced against each other, seemed to show that a light-carrying ether pervading all space did not exist. Fitzgerald, Larmor and Lorentz shored up the collapsing ether-concept by showing-theoretically-that a moving body must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering...
...great factor in the difficulties the manufacturers and retailers find themselves in at the present time involves the implications and repercussions attendant to the so-called contract that is entered into between the manufacturers and their retail outlets. It is a misnomer to say that this is a contract, because it is nothing more than a permit to do business . . . under the threat of cancellation. . . . This so-called contract is interstate in character. . . . Therefore, if those engaged in the automobile industry are to have relief, that relief must come from the Federal Government...
...convinced that the manufacturers have been ruthless in pursuing their objective, which has been the selling of new automobiles regardless of the consequences and that the contract entered into by the manufacturer and the dealer is the most efficient weapon they have at their disposal in seeking their objective...
...firmly convinced that as long as . . . [the manufacturers] . . . retain in the form of a contract the power to threaten, the power to cancel the automobile dealer out, just that long will these gentlemen force upon their automobile dealers unreasonable quantities of new cars...