Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depressing. The crash of Florida's big real-estate boom had all but wiped out the university backers; worse still was the devastation left by the 1926 hurricane. Zoologist Jay F. W. Pearson might never have gone to Miami at all if he had spotted the headline sooner: MIAMI IN RUINS...
...Federal Power Commission, which must still approve the project, McKay noted that the privately built dams would produce almost as much electricity and flood protection as Chapman's Hell's Canyon project. The first of the private dams could also be completed seven to eight years sooner. In any case, there was now little chance that Congress would vote funds for such a project. Said McKay: "We will not oppose any development by privately owned public utilities so long as their development does not substantially interfere with orderly development of natural resources . . . The Department . . . would ,be playing...
...What a misfortune!" they said in the street. "And the boat was loaded!"-with a cargo worth more than 500 lire, a vast sum to simple fishermen. The owner of the cargo could sooner have gathered figs from thistles than money from these destitutes; but in loyalty to their code of honor the Malavoglia would not shirk the debt. "We are ruined," said Grandfather 'Ntoni quietly-and began with all his humble means to resist the fact...
...sooner was he well than cholera struck. It killed so many people in Sicily that the price of anchovies dropped disastrously. Grandfather Malavoglia had to sell the boat...
Bainbridge also cautions against premature specialization. "Some people think they can skip thermodynamics and load their programs with electronics, for instance. This just is not true. Sooner or later, the loss will hurt him, and he will be forced to make up his missed courses...