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...TIME woods are not already filled with good indexers or would-be indexers, I offer to contract to do the job. But whether you accept or reject my idea I shan't cancel the boss's subscription, or discontinue reading TIME...
Observers of the Young Turks' successful occidentalization of Turkey marveled, once more, at the docility of the Turkish masses, which have abandoned the fez, ceased to contract polygamous marriages, and now seem prepared to alter the fundamental rites of their religion-all this within ten years...
...Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor, Mr. R. F. Johnston, he escaped the guard set over him by Feng, fled to the Japanese concession...
...contract calls for completion of the new structure, which will make Langdell Hall roughly three times its present size, before September...
This was the first time in several years that the White Star Line has paid its owners any dividends. The I. M. M. continued so successfully to be the White Star Line's U. S. agent that Baron Kylsant gladly extended their contract...