Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These relatively minor points-minor compared with the national welfare strikes and closed shop-illustrate the mess that Congress must untangle in the months ahead. The primary need is for action on the big points, and the sooner the pressure groups and politicians stop name-calling and realize that the best they can hope for is a direction of policy towards compromise, the sooner a workable law will be enacted...
...evidence that the new-model Smoker can indeed become a fine class-conscious force. But the Committee feels that the Smoker cannot be held earlier than February because of certain "organizational difficulties" and, it says, because "the class is not ready to take part in such an activity any sooner...
Judging by its appearance in Holiday, Harvard had now attained a new status. Descriptions like "Den of Dolts" and "Cloister of Cerebrums" were now old hat. Harvard had become a Resort, and Vag was dumbfounded. Why hadn't someone tipped him off sooner? Why had he gone on believing that Harvard was a struggle, an endurance test, an academic hoop race? Now it turned out that Vag, the academic renegade, had been the only one on the right track and had never realized his good fortune...
...government printing offices, the King's Printer had begun turning out an order for 400,000 copies of General Election Instructions, a guide for election officials. If events in the House of Commons kept going the way George Drew had started them, the books might be needed sooner than most expected...
...Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...