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customers entertained by one inmate during
This statement is corroborated by data secured by the Vice Commission in Chicago, where the average was found to be 15 per day for 18 inmates in one house covering a period of 22 months, [181] as well as by data obtained in Syracuse, New York, where the average number of customers entertained by one inmate during a period of 6 months was 12.
— from Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George J. (George Jackson) Kneeland

cried Elsie but oh I don
CHAPTER XX "Oh, Cousin Julia, how perfectly gorgeous!" cried Elsie, "but oh, I don't need it, and—oh, please take it back.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

cunning employed by our Intelligence Department
This, of course, was attributed by the Germans to the low cunning employed by our Intelligence Department that allowed the German authorities to get possession of a misleading map.
— from Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey

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