Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interest in geography is increasing so much that Raisz feels confident land-type maps of the entire Earth will inevitably be made, sooner or later. There are some 75 universities in the United States teaching cartography at present, and the figure is growing...
...completed in life, it must be finished after death; "that is why any attempt to hold the spirits 'earthbound'-by 'calling them up' at seances, or even by importunate and possessive grief-is to do them wrong by delaying their entry into beatitude. But sooner or later, if beatitude is what we truly want, we shall get it; for it is what God wants...
...quickly landed on her feet again. But no sooner had she taken over her new job as librarian of the William Jeanes Memorial Library, owned by the Quaker monthly meeting of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., than she kicked up another uproar by refusing to take the Pennsylvania state loyalty oath. Though she was not legally required to take it, there were storms of protest, but her employers decided to keep her on. Then the Fund for the Republic rushed in and offered the meeting $5,000 for its "courageous and effective defense of democratic principles." That put the case of Mary...
Picking up the pieces after the Suez disaster, the British found themselves getting used to the idea that they are not as big a power as they thought they were. The discovery made some timid Little Englanders decide that the sooner Britain settles down to being a comfortable Sweden or Holland the better, but there were others who were looking for new combinations of strength and finding them in the idea of European unity. A clear and insistent emotional cry for "Europe" was being heard last week in both Britain and France...
...other symptoms appear. This has already proved valuable in early detection of hepatitis, and Dr. Wróblewski has evidence of it in mouse leukemia. If the phenomenon is confirmed in human leukemia, it would mean that more effective treatment of this and perhaps other malignant diseases could begin sooner...