Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madison looms large on the delegates' horizon, but there are many other duties that will raise themselves formidably both before and after the annual convention. No sooner will the hubbub of the vote die down than the Student Council will be upon them with a series of six or seven daily orientation meetings beginning Tuesday. Since the NSA delegates are also scheduled to represent the College at the Regional meeting on May 15, before that time they must absorb knowledge of all that the Council has done in the past year and plans to do in the coming year...
...sooner had the Tafts bustled back to Washington than Tom Dewey flew into Grand Island from Albany. Standing bareheaded on a sound truck outside the Yancey Hotel, he apologized for his late arrival. Said he: "I ran into headwinds. I am tired of headwinds. I ran into a strong headwind in Wisconsin and I don't want any more...
...local council and church schools. At Scarborough last week, the schoolmasters unanimously agreed that teaching was "man's work," and called for a law to abolish schoolmarms. Grumped Schoolmaster D. N. Thomas: "These avaricious hordes of women already have staked a claim in our field, and the sooner they are smoked out, the better it will be for the boys of this country...
...Just Yet. After listening carefully to his own debate, Economist Crowther ventured the "very tentative and timid" conclusion that the curves of prices, production and employment "will not go any higher," will turn down "sooner or later." When? "My reason, based on study of the available facts, says not just yet. My instinct says...
...hadn't he quit sooner? "Well," he said wanly, "I guess it was because I was home news editor and not foreign editor...