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Word: soon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Little Giant | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...became assistant secretary of The Marine Trust Co., the next year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust Co. He was made president, soon opened many branch offices, piled up resources at a terrific clip. In 1926 the Buffalo Trust and the Marine Trust merged-and Banker Rand was elected president of all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marine Midland | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Last week he sold the rights to Radio Corp. of America. Through the cooperation of such manufacturing concerns as General Electric and Westinghouse Electric, the Theremin instrument will soon be on sale throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pacific Opera | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prelude to Learning | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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