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...cooled by the equivalent of 30 tons of melting ice per day. Meanwhile builders on the $160,000 reconstruction job were trying to earn the $200 bonus they will get for every day they lop off on the 90-day contract schedule, to avoid a $200-per-day forfeit for overtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...seduced by his sister, married by a good girl, Gabriel's troubles seemed only to begin when he met Sophie de Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate cells he stole to her one night, to find the long separation had made her a stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stormy Mirabeau | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...story is true, this means that Nekola's days as a college pitcher are over. "The best we can do if the report is confirmed," O'Donnell said late last night, "Is to write our apologies to any colleges he pitched against after signing the agreement, and forfeit the games in which he participated after the agreement was signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUMOR GAINS STRENGTH THAT NEKOLA'S COLLEGE DAYS OVER | 6/14/1929 | See Source »

...handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No 15's, No 5's | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...once at the Bursar's Office, between 9 and 5 o'clock, it was announced last night by G. L. Lewis '30, chairman of the Senior Dormitory Committee. These cards should be signed and turned into the Bursar's Office immediately. If this is not done, the men will forfeit their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIORS WARNED TO TURN IN ASSIGNMENT CARDS AT ONCE | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

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