Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this important occasion. The choice of Alfred E. Smith last year not only gave Harvard a chance to show its originality, but lent a real color to the festivities. The fact that the accomplishments which merited a degree occurred several years before when he was Governor of New York prior to his retirement, made no difference. It really is too bad that Roosevelt has received a degree for Roosevelt and Hoover on the same platform would be an unequalled combination...
...while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately put his chefs at the Hotel Sherman to mixing tomato juice formulas. College Inn tomato juice cocktail appeared in the autumn of 1928. Prior to that there were at least three tomato juices on the market-two made by Indiana manufacturers, one by Welch. College Inn sold 60,000 cases the first season, chiefly by word of mouth, with little advertising...
...Prior to that recent graduation that was so well reported in the Transcript, Miss Lord, the guiding genius of the Winsor School, Boston's premier debutante hothouse, assembled her departing belles in solemn conclave. It was a solemn conclave, for news had come that the Eliot House boys, being what they are, had planned to buy up the coming issue of the Winsor Class Book and frame the pictures of the girls therein contained...
...short time spent in the realms of Orpheus prior to entering the examination room is an effective antidote for mental flurries and uneasiness. We heartily recommend Dr. Davison's recitals to all undergraduates...
Thus in rank failure ended the first notable test of Attorney General Cummings' new policy of asking criminal indictments against all citizens, big and little, whose tax calculations disagree with those of the Government's tax auditors. Two months prior, amid a great blare of headlines, "General"' Cummings had announced that he would attempt to secure Mr. Mellon's indictment for tax crockery (TIME. March 19). So cocksure was he of his case that, in the public mind, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, aged 79, was already behind the bars. In answer Mr. Mellon made...