Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less sensational than the Government's loss was the win scored by big, sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward, who was Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. On the eve of the present election he united the Liberals and Nationalists (who had previously mastered but eleven seats) into his new Union Party and won, last week, a total of 26 seats-only two less than are held by the Government...
...what it was. It is true that the Harvard football authorities themselves did away with the traditional football rally, but did so because in the past two years the Harvard Crimson, which is supposed to express undergraduate sentiment, has scoffed at the idea of undergraduate rallies on the eve of the Yale game...
...clock Friday evening, the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron contest the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs, combined with the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs, will appear in New Haven in their first concert of the current year. The concert will be give in Woolsey Hall and will be followed by a dance...
Point was undeniably given Dr. Klein's prophecies by the occasion which prompted them. He spoke on the eve of the most important day the rubber industry has seen in six years. Fortunately, the day gave happy instead of dismal point to Dr. Klein's vision of a rubberless world. For on Nov. 1, the six-year British experiment in restricting export of rubber from Malaya came to an abrupt and official...
John Jacob Raskob has been both bull and bear. His most bearish moment was on the eve of the bankers' convention (TIME, Oct. 15), when he observed that "security prices have far outrun demonstrated values." His most bullish moment was on the eve of his sailing for Europe last March, when he predicted new records for General Motors, observing that the stock should sell at 15 times its earnings, or $225 a share...