Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into this first teaching job. A burly man with a Phi Beta Kappa key from the State University of Iowa, he had long wanted to teach. He had an irrepressible enthusiasm for literature and a head full of ideas on how to put his enthusiasm across. But no sooner had he completed his first few weeks than Paul Richer became the most controversial figure in town...
...outdated anti-colonialism." "I sometimes feel," said Attlee, "with all friendliness to our American friends, that they are a little apt to stand on the sidelines and leave us to carry the fight." But he too was critical of Makarios' exile. "The rebels of the past generally tend, sooner or later, to be the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth,"* he observed tartly...
After interviewing some 8,300 U.S. executives and many of their wives, Sociologists W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen reported in the current Harvard Business Review: "A laborer's son who marries the boss's daughter will land in a top management spot only two months sooner than if he married the girl next door. The farmer's son is much worse off: he can get to the top in 24.5 years by marrying a farmer's daughter, but it would take him 29.4 years if he married into money...
...Sooner or later, the city must, come out of the political smoke and make a choice, for or against Urban Renewal. If it wants Renewal, it will have to appropriate enough money to hire planners, coordinators, and inspectors. Such a move will pay for itself, since a planned city is a more taxable city, and the planning office total about two tenths of one percent of the total tax income. If the city does not want Renewal, it should stop wasting its time, energy, and money in half way measures...
...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...