Word: sooner
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...Nebraska politicians, is revered by many people. It seemed quite proper, then, when the Bryan Memorial Commission produced a 13-ton, 8-ft. bronze likeness of the late Great Commoner and planted it on the steps of the handsome, "skyscraper" (19-story) state capitol. The statue was no sooner in place than a storm of angry protests broke over the head of Governor Val Peterson. Republican pride was outraged that a Democrat should desecrate the capitol's steps. The governor compromised: the statue could remain on the steps "on a temporary basis...
...After losing almost all its seminary faculty because of its refusal to admit Negro divinity students (TIME, Nov. 17) the University of the South in Sewanee Tenn., ran into more trouble last week. It had no sooner announced the appointment of a new seminary dean and four new faculty replacements than the Very Rev. James A Pike, Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral ol St. John the Divine, bluntly refused to accept an honorary Sewanee D.D. degree. "I could not in conscience," he said, "receive a doctorate in the white divinity which Sewanee apparently is prepared to offer the church...
...critical point in the evolution of man . . . " says Huxley, " was when he . . . could organize his experience in a common pool. It was this which made human life different ... Animal types have limited possibilities, and sooner or later exhaust them. Man has an unlimited field of possibilities ... He has developed a new method of evolution: the transmission of organized experience ... which supplements and largely overrides the automatic process of natural selection ..." As soon as man acquired the ability to accumulate and transmit knowledge, he bested all his rivals and possible rivals on earth...
...sooner had the Government issued the new decontrols on materials and prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) than the law of supply & demand reasserted itself. In areas where shortages still existed, prices moved up. On the West Coast, crude oil went up 10? a barrel, and Socony-Vacuum predicted a nationwide boost of 1? a gallon in the price of gasoline. Scrap copper, supplies of which had dwindled to almost nothing in expectation of a free market, scooted up 4? a lb. to 25?. Since that was more than the ceiling price on refined copper (24½? a lb.), metalmen were sure...
Contraception, legal abortion, easier divorce are the foundations on which Author de Beauvoir hopes to build the "real" woman. The structure-which is to bring about "brotherhood" between men & women-will rise the sooner if men will only stop chanting about the wonder of their works...