Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner did the officer place a hand on his shoulder than the drink in our hero came up for the fourth time. The policeman, as a matter of routine, asked him if he had been drinking. "No," he said, "I always get sick when I see an officer...
...Future. "Just as sooner or later the outraged conscience of a community or a nation sets into motion forces which re-establish order under law, so, I firmly believe, the outraged conscience of mankind will set into motion forces which will create in the sphere of international relations unshakable order based...
...that has dominated the athletic program for the past few years. For in 1935, when it became apparent how far the H.A.A. had gone off the gold standard since the flush days of the Republican era of the twenties, drastic cuts in the athletic budget made it clear that sooner or later the University would have to shoulder the responsibility for its athletic program, as well as its direction and control. And the traditional way for the University to look after its activities is through endowments...
...replaced it without apparent injury. Scientists everywhere would consider this an extremely dangerous experiment for humans. Yet it might be possible to detour the bloodstream so that only a few ounces would be outside the body at any one time, yet so that all of it would pass sooner or later through the detour where it could be treated for blood infections or impurities...
Since these characters achieved prominence in a piquant period, it was to be expected that something in the way of written reminiscences would sooner or later appear. But Bohemians are notoriously lackadaisical about such matters, and though Kiki's Memoirs (Black Manikin Press; Paris, 1930) and Hamnett's Laughing Torso (Long & Smith, 1932) have been published, it was to small audiences; the panning of Montparnasse gold has been largely left to the more journalistically-minded. Third in the authentic train, Jimmy Charters' narrative would be condemned forthwith as a rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material...