Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of a library was not in its collection but circulation, he opened the shelves, removed red-tape, gave Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical theory, that the library could cooperate with the schools. He soon opened the first children's department in the country, expanded the function of the library with an art exhibit...
This Mary did, so successfully and with such persistence and missionary zeal that the two returned from Europe as man and wife. Soon Mary Victoria was pregnant, too, but that did not prevent Welding from deserting her "to find a place where there are high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...
...liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave the alarm (TIME, May 6), there has been little or no production on thousands of rich Florida acres...
Gossip. So soon as one or two banks closed their doors, came rumors that the whole banking structure of the State was on the point of collapse. Many a nervous depositor rushed to his bank, clamored for his money, brought on the very disaster that he feared. The bank failure climax came last week when Citizen's Bank & Trust Co. of Tampa closed its doors and carried down with it nine subsidiary banks. Between fruit flies, bad notes and wild rumors, a wholesale panic appeared imminent...
...from C. Breed Taylor, deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Out of storm-clouded skies over Tampa dropped an airplane from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...