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A few days later the London Daily Mail angrily protested that American businessmen in uniform were transacting business in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

While these things were transacting, the assembly of the peers meet at York, and by their advice a treaty was begun with the Scots.

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel

At the time these matters were transacting, I was Secretary to the Foreign Department of Congress.

From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas

While these things were transacting in England, the war against the Indians was prosecuted in the colony, with vigour and success.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

Where halls had been closed or raided the lumber workers were transacting their union affairs right on the job or in the bunkhouses, just as though nothing had happened.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph