Word: contract
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...contention that the marriage contract should not be considered by Church and State as a perpetual meal ticket, and that were I a woman separated from her husband I would prefer to live without his assistance if possible. I could not understand why women took it as a matter of course that they were to be supported by men with whom they no longer share their lives. And while admitting the possibility of ex-husbands' reducing their separated wives' allowances from convenience rather than necessity, I thoroughly deplored the legal precedent which had kept...
...fairyland, guarded by mammoth wooden elephants, which Mrs. Dawes dedicated last week. Children may wander past pleasantly fearsome caves and pirates' dens, meet a fairy princess, shake hands with a Bagdad giant 7 ft. 7 in. tall. There is a miniature zoo filled with baby animals which, by contract, must be replaced if they show signs of growing up. There is the World's Largest Marble, seven feet in diameter, in a gleaming house made all of marbles. Forty-seven at a time the Fair's young visitors may operate a complete miniature railroad system. Or they...
...arrested for traversing forbidden military territory. They distinguished themselves as the first flyers to cross the Pacific nonstop, a feat which has not been duplicated. Soon after their return Pilot Pangborn broke into print with a grievance against his partner, alleging that Herndon had forced him into a disadvantageous contract shortly before the takeoff, when Pangborn had to accept or back out, running the risk of being called "yellow." Herndon made no public reply, but a school of Pangborn-sympathizers nursed the belief that Pangborn had been treated shabbily. The whole business was soon forgotten by the public, until last...
...libel, prepared to prove that he had organized the flight purely as a sporting proposition, that he was a qualified flyer, that he was at the controls about 40% of the time on the world flight and charted all courses, that he claimed no undue credit, that the last contract with Pilot Pangborn was signed six weeks before the take-off on terms agreed to long before...
...third drives a windlass for lowering and raising a sub-cloud car. The sub-cloud car, streamlined and camouflaged to blend into an overcast sky, can be lowered 1,000 ft. below the ship for observation and photography. A telephone wire runs through the core of the suspension cable. Contract speed of the TC-13 was not made public, is supposed to be about...