Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this must vanish into the limbo of forgotten rites. The conviction of the Princeton Borough Council that where there is smoke there must sooner or later be fire is undeniably sound; insurance companies will breathe more freely, and so, one imagines, will the laboring pianist who plays the Wedding March during the death of the heroine. But for those children of Old Nassau--past, present, and future--for whom the rolling smoke cloud has been both a memory and a promise, the edict means the snapping of one more link in the connecting chain...
Senator Oscar W. Underwood hounded the Senate to vote on Henry Ford's bid for the industrial capital of the southern states (Muscle Shoals). The House had accepted the Ford offer, but no sooner had it done so than an unparalleled outburst of opposition to the Ford plan developed...
...sooner, however, had Mr. Daugherty handed in his resignation than another attack was opened on Mr. Mellon. Senator McKellar, Democrat of Tennessee, presented a resolution for an investigation by the Judiciary Committee to determine...
...author was Arthur E. Stilwell, one of the foremost railroad buyers in the U. S. In a dream, what Stilwell described as "brownies" urged him to build the Kansas City Southern, the shortest line from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico. No sooner was this task completed than the same "brownies" became insistent that he run another line from Kansas, southwest, into Mexico. Stilwell even consulted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who declared that "spirits" were directing his work...
...sooner did the franc begin to rise than Frenchmen began to fear it would rise too fast. Frenchmen, as well as others, who had to buy francs at a price higher than they reckoned, were forced to sell securities in order to meet their obligations. This caused dumping on the Bourse. And this nearly precipitated a panic...