Word: earlier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earlier in the week Dr. Schacht intervened in negotiations by the City of Berlin with Dillon, Read & Co. for a $14,400,000 loan, squashed it. Berlin understands"that the City was about to hire the money from Dillon, Read for 8.6%, that Dr. Schacht offered to supply it from the Reichybank...
...great success. Last week it was stamped by most listeners as pleasant, old-fashioned stuff significant only because it gives a hundred hints of the later, greater Verdi. Distinguishing feature of the performance: the sumptuous singing of Soprano Rosa Ponselle, prevented by a severe throat affection from appearing earlier in the season...
Rudolph had consolation in the fact that earlier in the tournament, in a match with Spencer Livsey, he had dropped in balls in succession, had beaten his opponent in four innings, thereby establishing two world's records in one game...
Admittedly these are small matters and as was pointed out in the earlier editorial they are only cited to show which way the wind blows. By observing the same straws which but lately showed such a strong breeze setting in from the shores of Albion, it is now possible to report that storm warnings seem no longer necessary...
...midst of the great volume of discussions and criticism of the student apathy toward time-honored customs and activities which loomed large in the college life of earlier days, it is a little remarkable that no direct handling of the problem of what traditions might be dispensed with and what are strong enough to warrant their continuance has been tried. The custom which is losing undergraduate support has been left to a process of slow dying which is painful to many observers who cherished...