Word: prior
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evoked such a general desire to adopt the necessary measures to accomplish it, that a Committee was appointed to communicate, through the metropolitan press and other mediums, with the boating organizations of different countries, in order that the views of Rowers generally upon the matter may be ascertained prior to taking definite action...
...Cornell to be admitted to the annual race on the Thames. Cornell is a polytechnic and industrial school, with no more claims to 'university' than the Troy or Boston Institute, or the one at Hoboken. . . . If we are to pull with schools of technology, the latter institutes have the prior claim by age and standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having no claims whatever to collegiate prestige. .... If Harvard makes...
...that the Hall be kept open during the spring recess. Those members who remained will have to pay the regular price for board, and those who left Cambridge can claim, on their return, temporary absence allowance for that time. "Any member who withdraws from the Association within the week prior to the recess and joins again within the same limit after the recess, whether with the intention of avoiding his share of the charge or not, will be considered as temporarily absent." Breakfast will be served, for the remainder of the year, between the hours...
...trying to shake out the ashes I heard your step. I thought I would let you finish the job, and therefore jumped into the coal-hole. Much obliged to you for this cheerful blaze, by the by. Can I do anything for you ?" "Yes," said I, "you have a prior right to the management of this fire, so suppose you fill the scuttle...
...Goodrich, Goodwin, Gray, Greenleaf, Hancox, Harriman, Harris, Harwood, Heminway, Herrick, Hitchcock, Houghton, Hovey, Humason, Hunt, Huse, Jane, Kenefick, Keys, Kimball, Lamson, Latham, Legate, Leland, LeMoyne, Lovering, Loring, Lowell, Lynde, Macauley, Martin, Merriam, Metivier, Millet, Minot, Morrell, Morris, Morse, Nash, Nichols, O'Callaghan, Ogden, Page, Parker, Parmenter, Patton, Perrin, Pierce, Prior, Richards, Richardson, Roberts, Roby, Rollins, Rountree, Rusk, Russell, Ryder, Sargent, Sawyer, Seamans, Sherman, Shippen, Sloane, Smiley, A. E. Smith, D. E. Smith, F. W. Smith, Sprague, Starr, Stetson, Stiles, Stone, Stringham, Strobel, G. N. Swift, L. Swift, Sykes, F. H. Taylor, W. R. Taylor, Thomas, Tiffany, Tillinghast, Tower, Twombly, Tyler...