Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous events William Hinton '41, David Emerson, and Peter T. Brooks '38 were prominent. Emerson gained sixth in the down hill race, as well as seventh in the cross-country run. Hinton was ninth in the down hill, eleventh in cross-country, and eighth in the slalom. Brooks won sixth in the slalom
Signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, the Japanese apology added little to previous unofficial expressions of regret tendered just after the delivery of the first note from the U. S. For indemnities it referred Secretary Hull to the earlier note in which restitution had been freely promised. As its best guarantee that the "mistake" would not be repeated, Japan pointed out that "the recall of the Commander of the flying force [Teizo Mitsunami] has a significance of special importance," which, it was Minister Hirota's "fervent hope," would be appreciated...
...House of Representatives thus started to call the roll of members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt had called it into extraordinary session to pass...
...country for what candidate has given a 100-per cent response?" Soviet officials explained that in Russia, under Stalin's new "Most Democratic Constitution in the World," the urge to vote is so strong that at thousands of polling places crowds of voters waited through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that is not until early morning. Many an old woman was reported to have exclaimed...
...building in the world (Chicago's Merchandise Mart for trade exhibitions), the second biggest department store in the world and one of the biggest drygoods wholesale businesses in the U. S. It also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey was born a poor boy, became a professor, had never held a corporate job. But when...