Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rules, accidents within the first ten strokes are allowed for, and fouling is carefully guarded against, although the Inter-Collegiate rules give a chance for fouls by allowing boats to depart from their course. Such a permission is liable to cause trouble sooner or later. The Harvard and Yale boats are required to keep in a course no nearer than ten feet and no further than one hundred feet from the line of central buoys...
Second round. - Lilienthal seized Bangs about the neck and threw him heavily, but failed to get a fall, Bangs wriggling to the top. The men were no sooner on their feet than Bangs threw Lilienthal heavily and gained the second fall and the bout. The cup was awarded to him as was also the general excellence cup for wrestling...
...exercises being carried through successfully. This year there are almost a hundred more men than last year in college who have a right to go to the tree, and it is probable that in time the classes will grow still larger. That a change must be made sooner or later is evident. The question naturally arises as to who must suffer. The choice lies between the graduates and the freshmen. But to exclude the former would be a lifelong matter, as a man always remains a graduate when once he has attained that position, while a freshman passes usually through...
...with Yale. While economic science has become a distinctive feature of higher education all over New England, we are not aware of a single prominent instance where protection is taught or even professed by an instructor. The reason is that economic science excludes the theory of protection, and no sooner does a man become a student of its principles than he will, if he is a man of logical parts, arrive by a straight road at freedom of trade, at least theoretically. The professor of Political Economy at Harvard was once editor-in-chief of a leading and influential protection...
...water for some time, and I believe some of the other crews find things the same way. There are lots of other men who stop exercising promptly when the bell rings, who yet are obliged to take a cold bath or none. Of course they might leave off exercising sooner, but the crews have to be there at certain times and stay till their work is finished...