Word: previously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be remembered that our State Department today is faced with the task of trying to put out the fire started by the ineptitude of two previous Administrations. Since 1945, we and/or our friends and allies have been kicked out of China, Albania, Indo-China, North Korea, Tibet, Iraq, Hungary and Suez. Is Quemoy to be next on the list...
Without Taper. In London, Arnold Downham, 47, a clergyman's son, who was sentenced to nine years' preventive detention for stealing candlesticks, asked that the court take into consideration 82 previous offenses-all involving theft of candlesticks...
...adapted the Fresnel lens to make trioptic spectacles for the near-blind. Feinbloom has concentrated for decades on the problem of 500,000 Americans who are legally blind (less than 10% useful vision), but who could read and work if only they could get the right glasses. Previous Feinbloom inventions supplied correction for only one focal range (close work such as reading and sewing, middle range for dressing and household tasks, or distance for outdoors), and the patient had to keep switching three pairs of glasses. Each pair was expensive, so the benefits of Feinbloom's ingenuity could...
...zanne's Boy in Red Vest. After the last significant lift of an eyebrow and meaningful tug at a vest. Carstairs Gallery's Keller had outbid all others by offering a fabulous $616,000. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for any painting (previous auction high: $360,000 paid for Thomas Gainsborough's Harvest Wagon in Manhattan...
...freshman meet, the Yardlings turned in a fine team performance as they swamped the Massachusetts freshmen, 19 to 44, for their fifth victory in six meets. Yardling captain Marc Mullin notched his sixth straight first place by equalling his own previous course record in a winning time of 14 min., 58 secs. for the three mile distance. But the real surprise of the Yardling's win was that they took eight of the first nine places despite the absence of their number two and three men, who were sidelined with injuries...