Word: renew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They will protest the failure of Yale to renew the teaching contract of Jerome Davis, professor of Practical Philanthropy, believing that the University's action was motivated chiefly by Davis' labor sympathies and activities in the Teachers Union. His contract will be ended next June allegedly on grounds of scholastic incompetence...
Your use of the word "replaced" without qualification, is far from accurate. When my contract with the former Hearst Metrotone News expired, I was invited to renew it by Vice President Edgar B. Hatrick of the news reel. For reasons entirely personal, I was unwilling to sign a contract of renewal and so notified Mr. Hatrick...
After last year's party, held during the Easter recess in April, it was undecided whether to renew the event this year. However, it was felt that, in view of the labor required, it would be better to stage the gathering only once in three years, thus allowing the parents of every member of the House at least one opportunity of seeing a House "in action...
...summer of 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte spoke to his Council of State: "If the European states intend every to renew the war, the sooner it comes the better. Every day the remembrance of their defeats grows dimmer and at the same time the prestige of our victories pales . . . . France needs glorious deeds, and hence war. She must be the first among the states or she is lost. I shall put up with peace as long as our negihbors can maintain it, but I shall regard it as an advantage if they force me to take up my arms again before they...
...full generation for Barney Glasgow to count the gains and losses of this move. The final audit comes when, the richest man in the State, he discovers in the old Swede's daughter the image of his old flame. Barney showers benefits on the family. His efforts to renew his youth by making the young girl his mistress are frustrated by her romance with his son (Joel McCrea...