Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boxer Henry Armstrong, world's welterweight and lightweight champion: a 15-round match in defense of his welterweight title; lambasting the challenger, Britain's Welterweight Champion Ernie Roderick, who had won 23 previous fights in a row; before 5,000 howling Britons, some of whom paid ten guineas (about $50) for their ringside seats; at Harringay Arena, London. For his performance, Champion Armstrong, undefeated in 46 fights, received ?8,000 ($40,000), largest purse in British boxing history...
Moseley, who urged that the right to vote and hold office be denied American Jews affiliating themselves with organized word Jewry, earlier expressed suspicion of drinking water provided by the committee, saying that he does not trust the group "too far" and adding that previous threats on his life have made him extremely cautious...
...stating his views on the Neutrality Law Hull bore out previous reports that the present act is, on the whole, not unsatisfactory to the administration...
...They all curtsied wrong-ways (right foot behind the left). Then Cecile departed from protocol. She rushed over and kissed the Queen. In a trice Elizabeth, lonesome despite the previous day's telephone call to her own two daughters, was on her knees in a flurry of kissing Quintuplets. Forgotten man for the moment was the King, in his Navy uniform, but Yvonne fixed that, running to him and taking his hand. Soon they were in brisk French conversation over the King's Navy buttons...
...rolled in one lot when enough of it accumulates. Ponderous U. S. Steel Corp. first disregarded the buzzing and biting of the mosquitoes, denied it was doing anything at all, finally "reaffirmed" present prices for the third quarter, in fact cutting them $3 a ton by extending previous "quantity deductions" to all small lots sold. This left the giant of the industry $8 a ton above its lowest competitor, but it asserted its intention of meeting each cut till its small bedevilers reformed or bled to death. Price cuts that bring increased orders are good business according to the philosophy...