Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation of men and bringing them up under conditions completely free from all influences and traditions of the past. Unfortunately, we cannot start with a new generation of men on a given day, and old generation of men persist in remaining whatever they happen to be, and can be sooner destroyed than remade. Over in Russia, closeted within the secret chambers of the Kremlin, a group of well-meaning individuals, having discarded experiences and traditions of the past, are trying to reorganize the shattered world by remaking grown up men. Do we welcome their experiment...
...series of four to whip the University. Players into shape before the Southern trip beginning April 16. The first game last year was not played until April 15, but owing to the mild weather and early conditioning of the team this spring the season is starting to weeks sooner. Admission to all the pre-vacation games, including today's will be tree both for all members of the University and the public in general...
...Hale Points out, the play could be strengthened in many places. The audience might be made to understand a little sooner the feelings that influenced Dagmar to turn to the gross furniture dealer; they might be permitted perhaps to appreciate the character of the plot a little sooner. It is almost as if the author developed his conception of the characters as he wrote the play. The characterization is never inconsistent; the author does not contradict himself but he seems to be so afraid that he will that the characters remain unformed until well on in the story...
...trifle too good to destroy, it needs a depository, and naturally this much-slandered edifice will dutifully continue serving this purpose. The odium that attaches to it will, of course, wear off in time, and eventually the museum may be expected to gain the attention it righteously deserves. The sooner the artistic hatchet is buried the better...
...what he has heard countless times, namely, "to stick!" This brings only a yawn from the tired college man. For the student feels that his case is different. He is young in years and, because he is young knows everything. If he disregards this advice, realization must come sooner or later that he is a quitter. He entered college for the fundamental purpose of getting a degree. If he leaves now the fact that he lay down on the job will follow him through life. He will be forced to admit that he left college--not because he lacked brains...