Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nerves. Thus the typical Nazi build-up prior to invasion had begun, and the excuses that Adolf Hitler's Government would give in case the Führer did invade The Netherlands or Belgium could be anticipated. Instead of declaring that "necessity knows no law" or asking "what's in a scrap of paper?" as she did last time, Germany's reasoning would be that, by submitting to the British "tyranny on the seas," Belgium and The Netherlands were, in effect, no longer neutrals but had really become British-dominated territory-hence, a proper object of attack...
...Prior to 1931 Freshmen lived all over Cambridge, while the Seniors occupied the Yard. When the House system was inaugurated, the Freshmen became Yardlings, living in the ancient quadrangle and eating and studying in the Union...
...retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental in its operation. The solution lies...
...with Manhattan's Bond Club, Under Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes stood up and predicted an era of business expansion soundly based on the investment of new capital in utility and industrial plants with or without war. Said he: "We were on the road to economic recovery prior to Poland." This naturally warmed the hearts of his hearers and encouraged them in expansion...
...lecture on mediaeval music by Dom Anselm Hughes, Prior of Nashdom Abbey, England, will be given in Paine Hall at 8:30 o'clock, November 8. The lecture will deal with John Dunstable, leader of 15th Century composition. The public will be admitted without charge...