Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champion Yates, a 24-year-old Atlanta bank clerk whose best previous accomplishment had been a Western Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
...thankless ventures like Winterset, The Informer. Now in the throes of reorganization, RKO has held no conventions, has announced only that it will make 54 features next season. For 1937, the corporation's net income totaled $1,821,166, a drop of over $600,000 from the previous year. On picture production it lost $236,909, made most of its profit from its theatre chain...
...they had already spent and might still have to spend, 14 of the 22 accused oil companies and eleven of their executives* decided to plead nolo contender e. That meant they agreed to pay maximum fines and court costs amounting to $400,000-which, considering the cost of the previous trial, was probably a shrewd economy. Said Attorney General Homer Cummings: "The offer may be regarded as a complete capitulation...
Throughout the game no more than one Crimson man reached first in a single inning as Devaney erased his previous 7-6 setback by the Varsity at Cambridge. Lupien's triple in the twelfth was the only extra base hit of the game...
...German general staff over the selection of a king for Lithuania. But in a deeper sense it is a dramatization of the moral conflicts that began years before, when the innocent Sergeant Grischa was executed. Aside from a few confusing passages about characters who appear in the previous books, it makes interesting reading in its own right. But it gains greatly if readers know the plan of Zweig's cycle of novels...