Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...condition of the student morale and morals in the New York public schools is little more than parents today deserve. The strip-film projector is no substitute for mother love, the basketball game for rabbit-hunting with Dad. The sooner parents return to the fundamental philosophy of home as the center of family life, the 'better off the kids will be ... Some people acclaim TV as the savior of the family at home. This still avoids the main issue: love and affection for one another...
Everyone went. But no sooner did the Feeney group get back to their side of the street when Feeney himself rushed out of St. Benedict's, leading his men across to Adams House again...
Some call Winthrop the home of the Crimson athlete, and they say that a Puritan scholar is a rare bird. This is a gross exaggeration. They are partially right, however, if they acknowledge that while a Winthrop man is known sooner for his letter sweater than for his letter grades the majority of Winthrop's athletes are good students...
Among the 1.000,000 children that the foundation hopes to vaccinate there would be (by recent U.S. averages) 700 cases of detectable polio this summer. Of these. 483 would, sooner or later, recover completely, 175 would have some permanent paralysis and 42 would die. The value of Dr. Salk's vaccine will be measured by the extent to which it cuts the number of paralytic cases...
...that she suspected Ugo Montagna of running a narcotics ring, of his frequent trips to visit the commanders of such ports as Genoa and Naples. Said La Caglio: "Sigurani listened very carefully, patted me on the shoulder and advised me to keep out of these things, and the sooner the better." Two weeks ago Dr. Sigurani tried to get the case dropped because investigation showed "the complete absence of a basis for any new charges." La Caglio wrote anxiously to the Pope, warning him that there were people around him that might do him harm. Then somehow the carabini...