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On the Chicago Board of Trade, grains frequently jumped the full day's limit long before the close of trading, and speculation became so rampant that conservative commission houses forehandedly raised their margin requirements.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, even before M. Duplessis began reading the letters, Committee Chairman Leon Casgrain, at the instigation of the Premier, forehandedly announced that Antoine Taschereau had already resigned his job as legislative accountant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Emergency telephones, which had been strung forehandedly at one-mile intervals along the road, were kept busy every three minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well aware of the overcrowding of U.S. colleges, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had forehandedly set up three emergency colleges on abandoned Army & Navy sites to help handle the overflow.*

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She felt the pockets of skirt and jacket, assuring herself that her purse and her own personal jewelry were where she had forehandedly placed them.

From Green Fancy by McCutcheon, George Barr