Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Note: "His Majesty's Government consider it necessary to warn the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the gravest terms that there are limits beyond which it is dangerous to drive public opinion in this country and that the continuance of such acts as here complained of must sooner or later render inevitable the abrogation of the trade agreement,* the stipulations of which have been so flagrantly violated, and even the severance of ordinary diplomatic relations...
...Bingham's report, while it record progress and promises further development, leaves much unsaid which must be said sooner or later. It does not quite penetrate to the fundamentals of the athletic problem. Because it comes from the man upon whom Harvard has rightly staked the solution of that problem it is disappointing judged by any other standard than that of a somewhat over cautions step by step advance...
...sooner were these words telegraphed to Paris than the "inspired" French press launched a thoroughgoing preparedness scare (see FRANCE). It almost seemed that Parisian editors must have had their editorials ready in advance. Perhaps they had. The relations between the French and Belgian Governments are so close that what is going to be said by the Government at Brussels is often known in advance and sometimes dictated by the Government at Paris. What is the foreign policy of Belgium...
...sung by the chorus (and later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride." He will say to the maiden: "If thou be as fair as men say, do on thy hood and come along o' me; and sooner than a weasel can suck a duck's egg, thou shalt be Queen of England." Near the lady's home, he loses his way, falls asleep, while Mr. Taylor's wood pieces whisper sylvan enchantments and the chorus, offstage, hums the forest mysteries. It is All-Hallow's Eve, when...
...antagonism to the British in China is largely due to our sending missionaries there. . . . The ancient faiths in China are as sacred to the Chinese as is Christianity to ourselves. The sooner our well-meaning people give up their crusade in India and China the better...