Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen years: she could not pray, take communion or even pronounce the name of Christ. Doctors had examined her, found her neither mentally nor physically abnormal. With the approval of the Bishop of Des Moines, the woman was made ready for exorcism by learned Father Theophilus, who upon 19 prior occasions had successfully made use of the Church's ancient rite, canonically available to all priests, for casting out devils...
...success) of this production the Theater Guild has enlisted the talents of playwright S. N. Behrman, stage-designer Lee Simonson and director Philip Moeller. The resultant concoction has been symbolically, if unseasonably titled "End of Summer" and is now going through a formative period of incubation at the Colonial prior to its New York flowering...
...understood everywhere. In his last 20 years this Dominican was believed to have performed 58,000 miracles, or eight a day. He was canonized in 1455. The Dominicans who conduct the Manhattan church were piously pleased to receive their patron's relic. The Very Rev. William A. Marchant, prior and pastor of St. Vincent Ferrer's, estimated the reliquary to be at least 450 years old. But who the "personal friend'' was that brought him this invaluable antique, Father Marchant would not tell...
With the face-off of the Adams and Dudley centers in the initial tile at 2.30 o'clock, plans for House hockey which have been brewing for several years will finally materialize. Prior to this year, a great deal of enthusiasm had been registered by ambitious House punsters, but no convenient rink could be found. Shortly before the Christmas recess, Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural Athletics, offered a solution by announcing that games could be arranged either in the Garden or the Arena during the exam period, since there are few Varsity practices at this time...
Sixty million years ago-the dawn of their Age-Titanoides was the biggest of mammals, about the size of a polar bear. Stout, thick-legged, big-tailed, weighing half a ton, probably a fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to 1932 the only evidence of him was a single jawbone. Then Bryan Patterson of the Field Museum found three skeletons, two fragmentary, one almost complete, near Grand Junction, Colo. The excellent specimen put on show in Chicago last week is the only one of Titanoides visible...