Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action last week, left the 38-page report before the public and the public prosecutors. Some findings of the committee: Bald, stocky, little (4 ft. 6 in.) Major J. Divine (or Morgan J. Divine) was supposedly born George Baker somewhere in the South, will reveal nothing of his life prior to a dozen years ago when he settled in Sayville, L. I. First running a bona fide employment bureau, he soon began to evangelize a following of blacks and whites which quickly swelled to 2.000 visitors per day. He now operates "Kingdoms" in New York, Newark, Baltimore, Washington, Bridgeport. Most...
...Consensus of scientists has therefore been that the forbears of Amerindians straggled into Alaska some 15,000 years ago, that prior traces of man on this continent should be viewed skeptically. Thus the academicians in Cambridge pricked up their ears last week when Dr. John Campbell Merriam, paleontologist, geologist, president of Washington's Carnegie Institution, said he believed man in the U. S. to be at least 100,000 years old, possibly 1,000,000. This conviction he owed not to the evidence of any single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places...
Among politicians throughout Japan extreme indignation seethed at this decision by the Navy. Only a few days prior the Japanese Supreme Court had sustained the death sentence of the civilian Tomekichi Sagoya who also alleged patriotic motives for his shooting of Premier Yuko ("The Lion") Hamaguchi (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Unlike "The Old Fox" who died instanter at the hands of his Naval petty officer assassins, "The Lion" recovered partially from his wounds, lingered through a winter, spring and summer before dying. Why death for Civilian Tomekichi Sagoya, who almost failed to kill, when mere imprisonment was the sentence...
...reason for this political kaleidoscope in the Balkans is the unstable internation structure of Western Europe. Prior to the War the alliance system maintained a rigid balance of power and alignments and commitments were definite and static, whereas today the existence of large intangible factors like Russia and Italy and the general untrustworthiness of alliances leaves the diplomatic arrangements in a state of flux. The situation is analagous to that in Europe just before 1870, before the ententes had been solidified and policy definitely formulated. The unrest in the Balkans is merely the reflection of this greater uncertainly...
...mother tongue for Hungarian; to E. J. P. Raven, for not saying that he was playing the obee in King's when he was and to E. J. Selwyn, for saying that he was when he was not; to Dochmanyi for the omission of his final syllable; to Mrs. Prior, for spelling her name with a y, and to Pini, for the agonizing distortion of his to Pain; and to any other Society or individual to whom the article in question affords ground for complaint...