Word: prior
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...battle of Shiloh was at least a partial victory for the Confederate States, and was certainly prior to that of Gettysburg. Might it not be more historically accurate to say that it took "overwhelming superiority of material" (TIME, p. 14, same issue) to win the U. S. Civil War (War Between the States) as it took to win the Spanish Civil War (War between the Ideologies...
...account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...
...Refugee Committee. But since the new appeal will be made on a totally different basis, it is likely to score in different quarters. Moreover, it will undoubtedly excite a sympathetic Alumni response. That certain Alumni are interested in such a scheme is evidenced by the fact that, prior to the Great Depression, three Harvard, Club scholarships were awarded in Argentina...
Although some varieties of rock were observed to become plastic and flow under relatively low pressure, quartz remained brittle under the very highest confining and differential pressures. Studies of quartz, one of the most common minerals, are vital to investigation of conditions underground. Prior to these tests it was thought that quartz might become plastic udder the high pressures...
This season will be 16 weeks long, two weeks longer than the Metropolitan's record low of 14, reached in 1933-36. Prior to 1932 the Metropolitan ran 24 weeks...