Word: contract
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...select rugs over the telephone to match a wall paper we have not seen. We place a contract for 10,000 tons of coal in the morning, and spend an hour over a pound of tacks to match a sample in the afternoon...
...committee also proposed to delete entirely the old article of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith: "Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract [for marriage], being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract...
...this number, after careful consideration of prospective ability, character and apitude of each of the contestants, ten candidates will be chosen who will be given an eight-week try-out in the First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with a salary of $75 a week for the first six months, gradually increased so that during the last year of the contract they will be receiving $750 a week...
...another far-sighted man who was young when the automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began to "Ask the Man Who Owns One," Alvan Tufts Fuller prospered also. Today he is rumored to be worth 40 million dollars; is considered the wealthiest of Massachusetts citizens...
...laws, that the stone corporations were entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously from this decision. Said Justice Brandeis: "They [the union members] were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract. They refrained from violence, intimidation, fraud and threats." Old but Able. Before the Supreme Court last week, a stocky 93-year-old gentleman with neatly trimmed snow-white beard and abundant snow-white hair, looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power...