Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queried one: "Why did not the Socialists announce this intention sooner, since they have always favored the Pacts? Did Chancellor Luther entice them by some means into his fold...
...lost his life, a hero, in the Titanic disaster. Nathan is now 77 and Oscar Solomon is 75, and for more than a generation their portraits have appeared in the public prints of the U. S. as frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than he gives away six cents. (Since 1915 his donations have exceeded his income.) Oscar Solomon is the zestful statesman (Rooseveltian Moose, Taft Ambassador to Turkey...
...unpleasantly accurate, it is time to go home much sooner. The Joker is a wordy and obvious melodrama. Mr. Morgan is far too good an actor to play this sort of thing, in which he is one jump ahead of the villain, poverty and cuckoldom...
...makes them his own, and, sooner or later, if he is a true student, there will come a reversal of the process, when these ideas, modeled and shaped by his own individuality, take definite form about some specific problem--probably an assigned thesis, possibly nothing more immediately useful than a jotting in a journal. When an undergraduate has reached this stage in his development, his intellectual future is fairly well assured. The student has found himself...
What Taxes. The chief provisions of the Administration plan call for reduction of surtaxes to a minimum of 20%, abolition sooner or later of the Federal inheritance tax, reductions in the normal taxes to benefit small tax payers...