Word: previously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman crew had an easier race than the varsity, breezing to a four and a half length win in 6:13.5. Andersen had expressed concern over the crew's previous inability to get off to a driving start, but he said that "they used the good water at the start of the race very effectively this time...
Harvard filled the air with record throws. In the javelin sophomore Frank Champi set a new university record with a toss of 224'1", thirteen feet beyond his previous best. Shot-putter Dick Benka set a meet record with a toss of 56 feet and Ron Wilson broke the stadium record with a 167 foot discus throw. Charley Ajootian set a personal record with a 187 foot hammer toss...
...Friday prior to the match, the Princetonians, who had defeated all of their previous opponents that season by a 9-0 margin, speculated on their chances of performing a similar fete against the Crimson. The latter had fallen two years running to the defending national champs, so one Tiger racquetman thought it only proper, upon arriving at Hemenway Gym, to inquire of his Harvard opponent, "Aren't you scared playing Princeton?" "Oh yeah, terrified," came the reply...
Princess Ida is typical Gilbert and Sullivan, stereotypical in fact. After the play opened at the Savoy in 1884, Sullivan fled to London. From France he declared that his score had a disquieting "family resemblance" to his previous work and that only by abjuring the musical comedy form altogether could he progress as a composer. Gilbert, characteristically less concerned with posterity, was nonetheless so moved by his collaborator's threats and supplications that he put aside the pedestrian libretto on which he was working to write what eventually was produced as the Mikado...
...Table. Relatively unheralded amid Wall Street's ebullience was the fact that the economy made a record-breaking advance during the first three months of 1968. Gross national product-the nation's total output of goods and services-climbed by about $20 billion as against a previous record of $17.5 billion in the first quarter of 1966. In that seemingly positive development there was a sharply negative point. According to President Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers, that 10%-a-year growth rate is about 21 times as much as the economy can sustain under stable conditions...