Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them are hard pressed for time. Second is the even more significant fact that many students, unable to find legitimate tutoring jobs, have gone to work for the tutoring schools. There they lost any personal interest and pride in their pupils. They were restricted principally to giving reviews just prior to exams to students who had by then lost any desire for real comprehension of the subject. Given a chance to consider themselves teachers rather than accomplices in the art of just getting by, the tutors will certainly do a better job than they are at present doing...
...that he has a mistaken idea because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...
...between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today's admirals as good students of Alfred Mahan believe in one fleet always together, even with the Canal...
...participate in a world conference to avert war, TIME through its correspondents and news services traced a contour map of U. S. public opinion. Object: to break down Dr. Gallup's national totals into the kinds and degrees of war sentiment dominant in the U. S. last week prior to Franklin Roosevelt's dramatic peace invitation to the Dictators...
...Prior to this week work-outs in Commonwealth Armory have been very spotty because of a wave of illness that swept through the lineup. Gay Dillingham, pivot man and individual star of the team, has spent most of the time since the game with Yale at Chicago in the infirmary...