Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only rarely suffer himself to be photographed. When Senator Fletcher, committee chairman, heard what had happened, he denounced it as a ''damned outrage," ordered the Morgan-midget films suppressed, telegraphed newspapers not to use them. When few obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter-skelter procedure, had declared: "We're having a circus here and the only things lacking are peanuts and colored lemonade." When told of Lya Graf, the peppery little Virginian sniffed a contemptuous "I-told...
HARVARD GRADUATES McCaffrey, 1f. cf., Burns Ware, rf. 2b., Chase Nevin, c. ss., Donaghy Hines, 2b. 1b., Lord Gleason, 1b. c., Chauncy Woodruff, ss. rf., Prior Kiernan, 3b. 3b., Huxtable Adams, cf. lf., Owen Taylor or deGive, p. p., Cutts...
Still unaffected was Mooney's prior conviction. All that he had gained was additional publicity for his case, perhaps grounds for a second pardon plea to unsympathetic Governor Rolph. His counsel held out the hope that last week's acquittal might provide cause for an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on the assumption that Mooney is now deprived of his liberty without due process of law. Sticking out his hands for his handcuffs, Tom Mooney went back to San Quentin Prison to wait some more...
...dissertation on thyroid deficiency, a commonly unrecognized disorder. Their interest in goiter has forced the Mayos to investigate the real causes for the falling off of their goiter business. They had a goiter survey made of Minnesota. There were actually fewer goiters in that goitrous State than any prior survey had shown. To the astonished surveyors it did not seem possible that Minnesota goiters had been operated or medicated out of existence. Unless depressed and worried existence prevented goiters, it seemed probable that five, ten years ago the State and the nation were in a goiter epidemic...
...Louis I. Dublin, a New York statistician claims that in a study of 4976 athletes who graduated from eastern colleges in prior to 1905, 1202 were found to have died before 1929. On the basis of the death rate of that period, Dr. Dublin finds that this number is less than the average for non-athletes...