Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citrocarbonate, which is an alkalizer, for just this purpose throughout the athletic department at Notre Dame University. Often the consumption of alkali there amounted to 100 lb. in a year, which seems to indicate Mr. Rockne's belief in the alkalinization theory was established a number of years prior to its publication in Germany...
...rates in effect prior to the inauguration of the present rates at the beginning of the academic year 1936-37, were considerably under normal it was pointed out. Those rates were $.75 a week under the present amount charged and the University was able to maintain them only because the price of food was so much less 4 years ago than...
...hypothetical case which Justice Alyce decides, modeled after the facts of the Gooch case, is called Ex parte Snatch. Oscar Snatch, a candidate for the senior class presidency of Siwash College, situated ten miles from a State line, kidnapped his rival, one Jeremiah Kelly, held him for seven days prior to the election. According to Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying...
...York cut traffic deaths 12.2% from the 1935 total of 954 to 838 in 1936. This was 17% less than the average total for the three years prior to 1936. Close second in the big-city group was Philadelphia. Chicago and San Francisco won honorable mention. Other traffic safety winners in their population groups: Kansas City (250,000 to 500,000); Omaha (100,000 to 250,000); Jackson, Mich. (50,000 to 100,000); West New York, N. J. (25,000 to 50,000); Wilmette...
...United was eager to merge with Walgreen but was turned down, and next year the Liggett-controlled chains went through bankruptcy. Walgreen prospered during Depression, even expanded. Last week, to furnish working capital for further expansion, Walgreen Co. filed with SEC a recapitalization plan approved three days prior by the stockholders which provides for issuance of $10,000,000 of new 4½% preferred stock...