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Word: sooner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...H.A.A. is hopeful of constructing a hockey rink sometime, the sooner the better," answers Thomas D. Bolles, Athletic Director. But the H.A.A., along with all the other hockey followers in the College, has been hoping this for a long time. Two years ago ex-coach John P. Chase '28 initiated a fund-raising drive with $1,000, but the drive soon petered out because then the Arena was still available. Now that the need is imperative, maybe...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/22/1952 | See Source »

...living in a very close-knit community. I say this because no sooner had a column on Illinois Jacquet appeared than a friend of mine showed up--looking agitated and somewhat annoyed...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Real Cerebral | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

...field overripe with invective, he has kept his arguments lean, prudent and confidently patient. As he once wrote, "I am not so much trying to persuade people to walk on a certain road, as I am to show them the road that I am convinced they are sooner or later going to walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reasoned Optimist | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...beaker. His wife, also an organic chemist, has a laboratory right next to his. She was a student in his first chemistry class at Bryn Mawr, where he taught after studying at Williams and Harvard. They have written six books together--a bulky Fieser and Fieser sooner or later adorns the bookshelf of every Harvard Chemistry major. The Fiesers are childless, but they own two Siamese cats. The elder cat was named "Syn K. Pooh," after Synthetic Vitamin K, which Fieser first synthesized; and the younger was named "J.G. Pooh" after Jellied Gasoline (now Known as Napalm), also developed...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Candles, Cats & Chem 20 | 2/19/1952 | See Source »

...undergraduate organizations have a common problem, that of experience. No sooner has one class learned to direct student activities than it must retire to prepare for theses, general exams, and graduation. Each year, a new group of leaders must begin all over again, relearning what has been learned many times over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experience | 2/19/1952 | See Source »

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