Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition costs nothing to enter, requires no previous experience or special aptitude, and can be dropped at any time. The work is divided up in such a way that anyone of average ability can readily see what is to be done and may compete successfully for either the news or the business boards...
...tight-lipped replies this week, India Office civil servants officially denied that the Durbar announcement had "political significance." They officially admitted that Sir Alexander Hardinge was "sent to India in connection with the Durbar arrangements." Presently they produced a printed document superseding the previous official but verbal announcement in terms of the Queen-Empress' health. The original verbal announcement was not denied, but the later printed announcement reads for posterity : "His Majesty the King-Emperor finds the duties and responsibilities which he has undertaken in unexpected circumstances unfortunately make it impossible for him to contemplate a prolonged absence from...
Elderly Mr. Guggenheim found the Baroness charming, her collection of non- objective paintings stimulating. Quickly he was brought to see the error of his previous collecting, began to assemble red triangles, green circles, pink and lavender blobs by such non-objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs...
...newcomer to the teaching business, Mr. Landis was made a full professor of law at Harvard in 1928 at the age of 29. Previous to that he had been the law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Always a scholastic leader, Landis headed his class when he was graudated from Princeton in 1921 and when he was graduated from Harvard law school three years later...
...that reason the Mississippi levees just below Cairo were in great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless...