Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each season to the best team, officials of the National Hockey League hold not one but five series of post-season games, from which only the three feeblest of the nine teams in the league are omitted. To the argument that this arrangement renders meaningless all the games prior to the playoffs, league officials have a practical reply: it prolongs the season for three weeks, pleases enthusiasts who like to watch hockey games whether they mean anything or not. Results of the play-offs that started last week confirmed their reasoning. Watched by capacity crowds in five cities were...
...feat few have been able to master' . . . One distinction in particular contributed to his prestige. This was his election in his sophomore year as conductor of the Pierian Sodality, the college musical society . . . . . As he grew older he found a keen enjoyment in charades and masquerade balls, spending weeks prior to his school vacations planning brave entertainments for the recess...
...cost over $400,000,000 some 30 years ago. Its net profit for 1933 was over $5,000,000 (before Roosevelt). Prior to Japanese interference in setting up the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the C. E. R. earned $10,000,000 (before Roosevelt) yearly from 1924 to 1930. Thus the C. E. R. changed hands last week for less than five times its earnings in an average year, the worst bargain made by Soviet Russia since Lenin accepted the Peace of Brest-Litovsk...
...original portions of the House, Randolph and Westmorely Halls, were erected at a cost of more than $200,000 each, not in the dormitory tradition of architecture, but as living quarters for the more affluent students of the period just prior to the inauguration of the House Plan. The interiors of Randolph and Westmorely, while not as "modern" as those of some of the houses, have the speciousness and grandeur germane to an are when the art of living was perfected to a degree. The new central portion of the House, Russell Hall, has the interior style of the newer...
Studying the White Paper they decided that some kind of English insult was evidently being offered to Germany prior to the arrival in Berlin of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon at the Realm-leader's pressing invitation (TIME, March 11). Nazi honor, they saw, must be satisfied by offering insult for insult. Soon an urgent cable informed Sir John Simon that his visit must be canceled "due to a slight cold with great hoarseness" contracted by Der Reichsführer. The German cancellation carried no expression of regret, no invitation for a later date. To rub in this...