Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college are conceivably concerned with "putting by" enough to give them a balance on the right side when their time comes; when they "go solo." If they are not, they will be-sooner or later...
...scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers." This is all correct, but your readers may be confused as others I know have been, into thinking that Mr. Bates' recommendation, which the President is backing, means the release from the Federal prisons sooner and oftener. This is not the idea at all. Superinintendent Bates is recommending as the National Probation Association has been for many years, more probation officers be employed in the courts to deal with offenders, especially first offenders, before they ever get to prison...
Suppressed last week, why was not the book suppressed sooner? It has sold in the thousands for a twelvemonth. A second Calcutta edition appeared last Spring...
...reason for the fame of Paris is that great building projects have for centuries appealed to the imagination of French rulers. Nowadays, however, the world's great monuments of architecture are reared in the U. S. It was inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...
...whose wholesale savageries, rapes and extortions are a byword throughout the Orient, rich, scowling Chang Tsung-chang evoked awed, fearful respect when he and his suite put up at Beppu. That a shot would sooner or later be fired in or from Chang's sumptuous apartments might almost have been called a foregone conclusion...