He developed other inventions, notably sugarcane-crushing machinery of advanced design, but he was soon devoted to metallurgy.
Chesebrough soon devoted himself solely to Vaseline manufacturing and marketing; posthumous accounts say that he swallowed three spoonfuls every night.
Furness graduated from Harvard in 1854 and was admitted to the bar in 1859, but he soon devoted himself to the study of Shakespeare.
In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, it was a commonplace that Americans would soon devote their lives to leisure, not work.
By James Surowiecki In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, it was a commonplace that Americans would soon devote their lives to leisure, not work.
Meanwhile, in 1916, he had met another wealthy painter, Emmy Esther Scheyer, who soon devoted herself to promoting his work in the United States, especially on the West Coast.
As a new university (founded 1737), Göttingen was less bound by traditional academic divisions, and it soon devoted itself especially to law and history rather than to philosophy or theology.
A blog site called Orszgasm.com was soon devoted to chronicling the affairs of this unlikely Casanova with a calculator, who sported not one but two BlackBerry holsters.While often amusing, this book is a story of disappointment.
These days, it is the home of LL12, a station that will soon devote every minute of every day to one topic: Linda Lingle, a Republican running for the United States Senate.
Transfixed by Wagner's genius, the king is soon devoting much of his court resources to supporting his protégé and turning the castle grounds into a Disneylandish playground inspired by the operas.
