Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner have the Earthlings become acclimated to Utopia, than they yet about to conquer it in the good old fashioned way of Pizarro and Clive. Infectious diseases have been so long stamped out in Utopia by the Utopian scientists that the mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them...
Mountains seem to attract him more than anything else. In fact, the book might be called "Memories of Mountains", for there is not one essay which, sooner or later, does not describe the peculiarities of the country's mountain ranges. At times their purple majesty awed him, but generally craggy heights and shining glaciers were obstacles to surmount, in record time, if possible. I strongly suspect that Suvaroff's Alpine Campaign, which he tells of in an essay by that name, interested him mainly because it took place in the most beautiful part of Helvetia, and because he admired...
...seize a favorable opportunity to change its stand on the whole Ruhr question. Hitherto Great Britain has maintained an attitude of despairing neutrality upon a question which vitally affects her own interests; now she is determined to have her say in the ultimate peace offering that the Germans, sooner or later, are bound to make. The propitious moment arrived. France views with no inconsiderable alarm the position at Lausanne and more particularly in Syria, where both Turkish and French troops are glaring at each other with nothing between them except a frontier. The British are endeavoring to align themselves with...
Once again the groupings had an incomparable finish and beauty. Scene followed scene in which the actors were placed in positions that formed triangles. The eye would no sooner become conscious of such a grouping before it was gone, and apparently without intention, another and still more interesting arrangement was effected. The mob in the third act was the best handled stage mob that I have ever seen. There was limitless life to it. Characters, regardless of importance, had individual "business" to do. The scenes that remain indelibly on the mind after seeing "The Lower Depths" were...
...cessation of passive resistance before any offer can be considered. As a small offer would be unacceptable to the French and Belgians, and the Germans know this, the larger amount, representing the maximum sum Germany will be able to pay, is sure to be brought forward sooner or later. The Germans would simply use the small offer, not as a ballon d'essai, but as a means of inaugurating direct negotiations...