Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon afterward, however, the wrathful telephone-women of Paris united to defend their nimbleness and honor, and hurled the counter charge that they could not make quick connections with antiquated equipment...
...remove an evil it knew was unnecessary. A start has at last been made, however, and one of the most obvious examples of illegitimate taxation is no longer. The small but even more annoying nuisance taxes on such "luxuries" as theater tickets are still present, but they too should soon follow the automobile war tax to the limbo of worn out war measures...
...securities, their intercompany relationships and the services furnished to utilities companies by holding, management and service companies. Chairman William E. Humphrey of the Federal Trade Commission last week assured Congress that he would even inquire into the political activities of the companies.† He intimated that his reports would soon appear. But observers of the Federal Trade Commission's activities skeptically pointed out that its latest map of the U. S. power industry was made in 1925; that for three months a revised map has been in preparation, that not for another three months will it be finished, that...
...Evidence. Twenty-year-old Michel's wooden pallet stretched narrowly between two seasoned convicts, murderers both. So Michel expected to escape, did he, as soon as he had learned from the "Aces" the finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...
...went up. As is usual in Manhattan, the shout was for the wearer of the harp. Champion Mandell had been too long in retirement to win favor. He came out of his corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy to the last gong, Harp-wearer McLarnin chased Champion Mandell, who beat him backing up, retained the title. This fight had been postponed twice because of rain, and Champion Mandell had to do some last-minute sweating...