Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many people thought that the Taft-Hartley Law would be repealed this year a great number of labor suits were put off or not appealed from NLRB decisions. This backlog, including cases concerning the definition of legal picketing methods under the Act is already on the Court docket. And, sooner or later, the Supreme Court will have to give a positive decision on Congressional legislation involving the Wages and Hours Law. So far, for example, the Jusices have refused to decide any appeal made on the Portal-to-Portal bill...
...move's chances of success, Professor Haberler agrees with Professor Williams that Britain's internal welfare program should be less lavish and that her sterling war debt should be repaid less liberally. He also thinks this country sooner or later will have to allow its export volume to drop. "Otherwise we must resign ourselves to subsidizing the world forever...
...Frederick Seitz and Hans A, Bethe, who worked on the U.S. bomb, estimated that "any one of several determined foreign nations could duplicate our work in about five years." The Russians actually did it in a little over four years, counting from Hiroshima. But they may have started sooner than that, and they certainly had some help from German atomic scientists...
...writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends. Example: no sooner had Paramount proved that a spicy James M. Cain story like Double Indemnity could be put on the screen than Wald got to work on Cain's Mildred Pierce...
Foley had been sitting in a living room chair in front of a window, until he decided to get up and go to the kitchen. No sooner had he reached it than one shot came through the window and hit the wall behind the chair in a direct line with the spot that Foley's head had previously occupied...