Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhere before). Only yesterday I borrowed the name of one of the more liberal student organizations to run off on a number of placards announcing a discussion on present-day education in Sever Hall. They may be surprised when they get the printer's bill, but everyone must learn sooner or later that nothing conres free in this world. And this evening when I went at the appointed hour there were altogether twenty-five men in the room and three freshmen, including myself, and I may have counted myself twice...
...great trouble with this place is that it is all talk, talk; nobody is willing to listen. No sooner had I finished giving the Dean my beliefs than he attempted to answer them. Of course, the only dignified thing for me to do was to walk out of the room, which I did, leaving him quite dumbfounded...
...sooner have the anaesthetic merits of ethylene been successfully demonstrated by Chicago physiologists than another candidate for sleep producing honors arises in Germany. A writer in The London Lancet describes an anaesthetic discovered by Professor K. Gauss, of Freiburg, composed of 40% purified acetylene and 60% oxygen, deodorized by oil of pine. Already more than 500 operations are said to have been performed under it with no harmful results...
...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
...News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than it organized a 245-mile endurance motorcycle race, open to all. The largest publishing concern in the world broke all distribution records during 1922. The largest publishing concern is the Government Printing Office, Washington...