Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Germany is not yet dead, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better. By just such tactics, by playing on the sympathy of "soft" American hearts will she, unless sternly checked, win back little by little that power which cost so many lives. Only a few weeks ago. It was reported that Von Hindenburg addressed a tremendous gathering on the necessity of concentrating attention on the next "test of strength." While the rest of the world is playing and striking, Germany is working and whining her way into power--a dangerous omen for the future...
...main features of the plan, government ownership, management by employees, and government payment of deficit, are all well known, and all three are pernicious. The first of these, government ownership, is a very dangerous principle in a democracy like the United States. Sooner or later the railroads would become the pawns of the political parties, both working for their control. The spoils system on a new and greater scale would be rejuvenated. Moreover, under this plan, the employees of the railroads would have effective control over the hours they work and over the pay they would receive for that work...
...would be very unscientific to hazard a prophecy as to the future developments in this line. It is merely a question of time till discoveries made often accidentally, find their way to factory and are used in large scale production. Almost every scientific discovery is made use of sooner of later...
...words "a six-column paper would need as much support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of 'instructor.'" In short, if the CRIMSON keeps on digging its own pit as rapidly as it has in such editorials as this reply, sooner of later the fall is bound to come. ALAN H. CLILLTON...
...falling into disuse. They might well serve as agents between present and future undergraduates in pointing out to the latter some of the advantages of going to Harvard. There is at present a natural re-action due to the war which makes us treat most things as inconsequential. The sooner we can take an active, unselfish interest in ordinary worth while matters, the better. A few words to a friend, uncertain about choosing college might be of real help to him and the University...