Word: prompt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massacre and plundering oh a large scale in Shanghai would be the natural consequence of the rout of Sun's armies, except for the prompt action of the British Government in sending troops just in time...
...construction money he puts up apartments that rent, on the average, for $2.53 a room a week. In the latest buildings each apartment has electric lights and private bath. In older constructions, lacking these conveniences, the average rent is $1.99 a room a week. The tenants pay their rent promptly. One year, when total rentals were $826,483, only $18 remained unpaid. During the generation that the City & Suburban Homes Co. has functioned, unpaid rents have averaged $30 a year. No other landlord has such prompt and complete rental payments. And the health of Mr. Cutting's tenants...
John Tudor of Boston was elected President of the class of 1929 in the Sophomore election, the results of which were announced last night. The most prompt and one of the heaviest votes cast by a Sophomore class was counted last night. Over 600 postal ballots were returned, some 50 being invalid, leaving 566 to be counted...
...Mill Si. 1, and even gentle men talk about studying the official scion of that worthy race wanders far afield, stopping now in a Maine lumbering hut, now in a Montreal saloon, and then in a New York night club as the light fancy of the vacationist happens to prompt him. This is all very well and quite as it should be, but in his absence I feel the urge of my former habits strong upon...
...favorites have been caught on the crest of one of these surges of iniquity, and that Cobb and Speaker are liable to be waived out of the American league we decided that the present side of sin has exceeded its legitimate high water mark. And being a man of prompt action we no sooner decided that American crime had gone too far than we resolved to do something about it. We gave this matter the full benefit of our careful consideration and arrived at several plausible solutions of the problem. Pahily put, our leading crime preventatives follow...