Word: previously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the institutions listed had already completed fund-raising goals in previous years to meet Ford Foundation challenge grants, so that there was a decline in current fund totals...
...work days at the Pentagon because of an irksome back ailment. He returned to law practice in Manhattan, although repeated summonses to Washington for troubleshooting missions scarcely left him time for his legal career. The grueling Paris negotiations will tax Vance's health even more severely than his previous assignments. Despite the orthopedic brace he wears, his back is often so painful that he cannot bend to tie his shoelaces...
...that isn't daunting enough, a glance back over the record of previous directors would sober the most sanguine candidate. In 1964, Herbert von Karajan quit in a huff over "bureaucratic interference." Karl Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left...
Necessary Frenzy. The Islander is only the second plane designed by Norman and Partner John Britten, both 39 years old. Giving up temporarily after their one previous effort, a 1949 single-seater that flew "like a crippled bird," the two partners began to concentrate on building up what became a worldwide crop-spraying business. They were waiting, says Norman, "until we could see a really good gap in the market before working ourselves up into the necessary frenzy to build another plane...
...moment, the DeWolfe St. and B-School sites appear to be the only ones left in the running. If the School Committee selects one of them, the City Council will then have to appropriate about $200,000 to build the classrooms. In previous hearings, several city councillors have opposed the expenditure and supported the alternatives of having double sessions at another school--or bussing the children throughout the city--both of which are opposed by the Houghton parents...