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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...references to greasy hands and awkward monkey wrenches. At least he is determined that the younger generation shall not follow in these same steps and has vigorously exhorted the graduating class at the Tech to change their collars every evening, presumably to rid themselves of the stains of honest toll acquired from too close contact with the machine age during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUMMERS AND MEN | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...office by the Governor of Ohio as a result of an expose in the Canton News of graft and corruption at City Hall; his brother, E. E. Curtis, who was Director of Public Safety during the former regime of Mayor Curtis, organized the Canton underworld and exacted a toll of graft from all of its vicious activities and, when exposed by the News, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. I ask you to ponder the fact that Mayor Curtis is back on the job today at City Hall, the people's choice, as a result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Radiance Upon Millions | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Toll of four days of street fighting: 27 killed, more than 100 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bloody May | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...mergophobe need not fear that the deal will create a world communications monopoly. Still the active, eager competitor of I.T.&T.'s wire systems is the mighty Western Union. Looming is a battle with Britain's merged cable-wireless companies. And for good measure, last week, Sweden's Kreuger & Toll (holding and financing company for the Swedish match trust) threatened to invade the foreign telephone field, in direct competition with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breathless Behns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Traffic Department handles the operation of this material; the actual work of calls; supervision of telephone operators, which again is sub-divided into local, toll, and long distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

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