Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this land and to provide the utmost economy in construction cost. It comprises a row of connected dwellings some of them two story houses of the Philadelphia type, and some of them apartments. The total number of families that will be provided for in this first contract is 43. The houses will be built of local brick and will provide three or four rooms for each of the small families that will use them...
...former court jeweler of Wilhelm II confessed to the police that the crown was brought to him in a leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm...
...Revoke penalties: two tricks for the first revoke; one for each subsequent revoke-the tricks to be taken literally from the offending side's trick-collection at the end of the hand and to be counted in the adversaries' score, for themselves or against the contract, exactly as if taken in play. The offending side may then score the legal reward for its remaining tricks as if it had not revoked. The penalty may be exacted only in actual tricks from the offending side, and not "on paper" in case the offending side's tricks are insufficient...
...audiences rushed to the footlights afterward to give her an ovation, acclaimed her a "great old lady." Back, way back in his office, where all things are decided, Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza listened to her voice, still gloriously strong and true, listened to the applause, drew up a new contract, for next season. Last week Mrs. Charlotte Grief (daughter of Mme. Schumann-Heink), who lives in Leipzig, sailed for Europe. Mme. Schumann-Heink went to see her off, encountered a group of reporters, took the opportunity to announce that she had signed the contract. "What I did was only...
Arrangements for the reproduction on the east pediment of Holden Chapel of the sculptured group, which now appears on the west side, have been completed. This announcement was made yesterday, simultaneous with the appearance of scaffolding for preliminary work on the west side. The contract for the sculpture has been given by the University Planning Board to John Evans and Company, of Boston Carvers...