Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late General William Bramwell Booth enclosed the name of the person whom he had chosen to succeed him as worldwide commander of the Army. None dared open the envelope for the dissension it might cause. Some think he named his daughter Catherine, but, as Lawyer Gavin Simmonds declared just prior to last week's burning: "People may guess, may hope and fear, but they cannot know...
...Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot of the mountains and back, found coal traces in the range. His observations, coupled with prior ones farther north along the Ross Sea, indicated existence of a great coal bed only a few miles inland...
...northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they...
...Prior to the University bouts, the Harvard Freshmen will grapple with the seconds. The lineups have not yet been decided...
...against his father. It was further pointed out that the son had throughout been willing to waive his defence of infancy, and to post a bond or other evidence of his financial responsibility, but that this had apparently not been considered by the court at the prior hearing. Counsel for the plaintiff insisted that Corman had had his day in court, but Judge Stone denied this contention on the ground that there had been no opportunity for Corman to state his case. He allowed the motion of defendant's counsel...