Word: previously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
...Philadelphia Museum of Art played host to a motionless throng last week: 252 figures stood about the main hall and on the museum terrace. They were there for Philadelphia's Third Sculpture International (previous shows were held in 1933 and 1940) and a share of the award-money...
...last 18 years, the short interest peak was reached just before the market started up. The bears had guessed right only ,six times. Their failure was even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that...
Palms in Paris. No previous biographer has detailed the nagging poverty of the Emerson family as closely as Author Rusk -the boarders in the house, and the gifts of money that arrived at the last moment. Other biographers have told the story of Emerson's teaching after his graduation from Harvard; Biographer Rusk gives the subjects he assigned to his girl students for English composition, his comments on their papers. Other biographers have touched lightly on the tragedies in Emerson's family; Rusk tells in detail of his brother Bulkeley, who lived past middle age without developing mentally...
...August 9, without any previous warning, Akeley received a letter which said the Board had unanimously decided that his "usefulness . . . had been fulfilled" and that he was not to resume work in the College. "You can advise me," chairman Frank W. Blair said, "whether you desire to treat the next academic year as a sabbatical year or whether you now decide to present your resignation...