Word: previously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When The Churchman, the nation's oldest religious journal, offered its annual "Good Will Award" to Secretary of State George Marshall last fall, a State Department aide readily accepted for the secretary. In previous years the award had gone to such distinguished figures as Madame Chiang Kaishek, Wendell Willkie and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Then someone took another look at The Churchman and its editor, Guy Emery Shipler...
...worst outbreak of infantile paralysis in the state's history has struck down 195 people since Jan. 1; the worst previous record for the same period was last year's 73 cases. Hardest hit was the Rio Grande Valley...
Deepest. The Pure Oil Co., which has been drilling an oil well in Wyoming's Wind River Valley, brought in a producing well at 14,309 ft., a record depth. (Previous record for a producing well: a 14,000-ft.-deep well in Grady County, Okla.) In a 41-hour test, the well flowed 1,413 barrels. The news sent Pure Oil's stock up 4½ points to 40 in one day on the New York Stock Exchange...
Calhoun points out that, without exception, his fellow pony-pushers have had previous experience on the polo fields. Besides his own Manila participation, which was shared in a lesser degree by his younger brother Tom, team members have played in the Argentine and on squads in New York, Cleveland, and Arizona...
...chartists had a rough clue in past performance. After previous bull-market "confirmations" (breakthroughs), the Dow-Jones industrials had a total rise from 30 points...