Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell you, TIME, they all lay down sooner or later...
...sooner were the Rector's stones hoisted on high than a band of his own students, crying "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!" mobbed the Rector's huskies, hurled down many of his stones, and marched away in triumph, singing La Braban-Qonne, the Belgian national...
...sooner was the grave charge of "conspiracy against the state" read out to Bela Kun than he bounded to his feet and roared at the judges: "I am always conspiring for the welfare of the Soviet State, which is even now triumphing over your petty bourgeoise bureaucracy! . . . There is nothing criminal about my activities, which are always purely political...
Professor Andre Siegfried, French sociologist, at one point in his book, America Comes of Age, remarks: "The great newspapers, as everyone knows, live entirely by their advertising. Logically, therefore, they are bound to fall sooner or later under the influence of high finance and big business which pays for publicity. . . . The national interests thus possess an effective means of moulding the public to their ends by withholding what they think it should not know and presenting each subject from the desired angle...
When a "clever child" is featured too much by its parents or their friends, it ceases to be clever or funny, as a rule. It is trying so hard to maintain its reputation for this gift, that sooner or later, it becomes obnoxious and boresome...