Word: punctually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week the telephone jangled in the office of Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah. The British Embassy was calling. Could Senator Borah see the British Ambassador? Yes-the next day. Punctual for his appointments. Sir Esme Howard arrived at the Senate Office building, found his way to room 139 without direction, was there long closeted with the senators...
...world is full of people who say 'It can't be done.' It was said that Germany could not pay, but money has come out of Germany during the last four years in punctual settlement of the annuities which were fixed in the Dawes Plan, and that's all there...
...Lindbergh, punctual messenger, delivered the resolution when he reached Washington. President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...
...south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive for the punctual ambassador...
...Punctual, His Excellency General Roberto Cruz, Chief of the Mexico City Police, arrived just before 11 A. M. to superintend the execution. His spurs clinked as he crossed the prison doorsill. Entering the prison garden, he swept with a cold, appraising glance the mounted police (now dismounted) who composed the firing squads. At 11 o'clock sharp General Cruz ordered that Priest Miguel Agustin Projuarez should be the first to face muskets...