Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth's baseball team, with its record of seven league wins, was bound to get beaten sooner or later; but the manner in which the Big Blue turned the trick made one forget about the Hanover, and wonder whether or not the Commencement Day games aren't to be even tougher than the double-header with the Green...
...sooner had Kidd been laid by the heels than rumors of his buried treasure spread like wildfire, set amateur treasure-seekers (and still does) searching and digging. One reason: the "treasure" captured with Kidd was disappointingly small, indicated to optimists that more must be cached somewhere. Another: in a last attempt to buy his life, Kidd offered to guide a King's ship to hidden treasure worth ?100,000. In the 19th Century nine different companies were formed to look for this legendary hoard. Author Wilkins believes Kidd's treasure is really there-somewhere-thinks he knows...
...University in making up its new budget must face these pressing demands sooner or later, and a quick elimination of these persisting relics of a past will promote the efficiency of ordinary college life...
...Grande do Sul and cattle have been on top ever since, even though the Paulistas boycotted the election which President Vargas got around to holding in 1934. What Rio Grandenses have been wondering lately is whether this scramble has upped their State or merely shrewd Getulio Vargas. No sooner did the State's No. 2 politico, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, cast an anxious eye toward the Presidency than he was shipped off to Washington as Ambassador. General Flores da Cunha thereupon encouraged a Paulista, Armando Salles de Oliveira, to resign his post as Governor of the State and thus qualify...
...Wrote he in his imitation Pepys' Diary in the A. M. A. Journal: "It seems strange to see one side of the countenance so cold and fishy. Belike it would be well to save this appearance to bestow upon the quacks." Specialists assured Dr. Fishbein that ''sooner or later" he will recover...