Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Farm Board, flayed the private commission men as "gamblers." A rush of denials of trouble flowed from Farm Board Chairman Alexander Legge, Mr. Barnes, Chicago and Minneapolis grain men. From the White House came a broad hint that President Hoover would support his farm board chairman sooner than his business committee chairman in this controversy...
...certainly to be hoped that the plan will work out successfully, because it will go a long way towards the solution of the professional problem in tennis. It seems inevitable that we are going to have tennis pros just as we have them in golf, and the sooner they are treated sensibly the better it will be for the sport as a whole. More good tennis players will take up teaching the game as soon as they realize that they are not going to be ostracized from the court aristocracy for doing it; and the more good teachers there...
...Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting in trouble sooner or later over gambling, women, or trickery. In Vienna he was arrested by the Chastity Commissioners; in Paris he ran a state lottery; in Warsaw he fought a duel with Count Branicki; in Rome he was decorated by the Pope; in Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin...
...Tutoring Bureau is one of the few activities at present conducted by Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and it is potentially one of the most valuable ways in which the Society can be of service. It is unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before...
...advantage of the chain store organization which is overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...