Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance several years ago of a religious cult which incorporates into its system certain methods tending to arouse the emotions has called forth justified criticism. Labelled with the attractive slogan, "How to get real religion", its banner has inveighed many into an active participation. Then, as soon as these innocent volunteers have entered the intricate labyrinth, another's authority is sufficient to compost their personal surrender--their setions and duties, no longer in their own control, are said to be ordained by divine will...
...wrestling for heavy men, particularly football players, who wish to keep in condition. It will be a purely recreational affair, and imposes no restrictions. Several men have already enrolled. Coach Lewis has announced that any others considering joining this group should report to him in the wrestling room as soon as possible...
Differences in customs, and even in language, are sufficient to mark the American Rhodes Scholar off as a foreigner at first. Yet he, and his colleagues from the Dominions, soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally the differences in native ability, temperament, and training make for differences in accomplishment. Some Rhodes Scholars have had a very successful. Oxford career, although their accomplishments would not look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part...
...what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...
...sure they [ancient peoples] had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Mr. Ford did not deny the general supposition that Ford Motor Co. (U. S.) stock in some form would soon be offered to investors, just as Ford Motor Co. Ltd. (British) has been...