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Word: contractive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation meets this morning at 9:30 and will consider the recommendation that the remaining two years of Jordan's contract be bought up, and he be replaced by his backfield coach, also here since...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Williams Seen as Likely Replacement for Jordan | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...seemed probable that the question of buying up his contract, with two years yet to run, would come up at Monday's Corporation meeting. That body, the University's ultimate governing board, must reach the final verdict on Jordan's coaching future here...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Corporation to Weigh Dismissal of Jordan | 1/4/1957 | See Source »

Several officials also denied that any alumni offer had been made to buy up the contract, and one implied that if any such offer were made, it would probably not be accepted...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Corporation to Weigh Dismissal of Jordan | 1/4/1957 | See Source »

According to committee members, the feeling that Jordan was a poor teacher was a cumulative one built up over several years, despite the fact that he was given a new contract in the summer of 1955. This was explained as an effort to improve the situation by showing him that the University had confidence in his performance...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Corporation to Weigh Dismissal of Jordan | 1/4/1957 | See Source »

...genius and labor, so that machines think and remember and correct and control, would create a vaster difference between man and the contemplation of God. But this isn't so. It mustn't be so. By blessing these machines, we are causing a contract to be made and a current to run between the one pole, religion, and the other, technology . . . These machines become a modern means of contact between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sacred Electronics | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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