Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requirement which makes a man who rowed in the Varsity race against Yale or for any two years on the Junior Varsity crew eligible for the major insignia will still hold good. This rule awarding insignia to a Senior rowing in the Junior Varsity against Yale was in effect prior to 1927 and is made retroactive to that date...
...last March. At a semi-annual meeting of the court (board) of directors, one E. T. Hargraves announced that after diligent research he had discovered that on March 6 the price of Bank of England stock was the highest in 240 years: 387% of face value,† Highest price prior to that was 367% in 1898; lowest...
Everyone knows two facts about the University of Maine, but few outside New England can supply three. Last week newsreaders learned that the University whose hymn is the "Stein Song" and which once harbored Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, had elected a new president, LaFayette's Dean Arthur Andrew Hauck...
This was no economist with a Message for the 2,000 packed listeners, but a scientist. More strange, he was there to talk on a subject in which nine-tenths of the audience had had no prior interest: "The Expanding Universe." But he was Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, M. A., D. Sc.. LL. D., F. R. S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, Director of Cambridge Observatory, metaphysician extraordinary of modern physics...
...Emery, prior to his coming to Harvard, was engaged as a trustee for private properties in Boston, when in 1921 he was called to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of John Lewis Taylor as assistant comptroller. At that time Francis Welles Hunnewell '02, now Secretary to the Corporation was then Comptroller...