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notification from the manager advising the performers of the amount of time left before they must appear onstage.

QUIZZES

Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.

Question 1 of 8

Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
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Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
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There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
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That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
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Suddenly, without warning, the whole feeling of the scene changes.
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He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
Confidence|Henry James
He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.
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