Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument for lowering the price." For the rest of 1908 the composite price of finished steel remained virtually unchanged. In January 1909 it was 1.82? a pound. Prices for succeeding months were: 1.772?, 1.599?, 1.577?, 1.506?. Last week U. S. Steel Corp. again took a stand. A few weeks prior Carnegie Steel had announced its quotations were "min-imums." But last week's prices for finished steel products were upped on the average of $1 a ton.* A typical example was steel bars, previously quoted in Pittsburgh at 1.60? a pound, now quoted at 1.65? against 1.90? a year...
...statement the Old English period of Beowulf and the riddles possessed nothing which could be called humour. Even Chaucer's humour, as he points out, has little or nothing with the modern form. Modern humour, he says, "hardly came into its own till the Renaissance; prior to that time, the mental complexity which it requires was not very widely diffused...
...Sophomore and Junior applications, containing the statement of the House preferred by each student, will be due by 5 o'clock on Saturday, January 17, just prior to the beginning of the mid-year examination period, and should be delivered to Room C, University Hall, or to a representative of one of the Houses. The Masters will announce the lists of men for their respective Houses within a few weeks after January...
...Just prior to the Coronation of the Emperor Power of Trinity I of Abyssinia the Associated Press reported from Addis Ababa that Colonel Julian, "then chief of the Abyssinian Air Force, had crashed in the presence of His Majesty, destroying a plane which had been a Coronation gift and so enraging Power of Trinity I that he stripped him of all honors, ordered him out of the country in such poverty that the U. S. colony in Addis Ababa had to make up a purse to pay the Black Eagle's fare home (TIME...
...Boston society is the third oldest scientific museum in the U. S.* In 1830, a group of people who liked birds and fish met in Boston at the home of Dr. Walter Channing, obstetrician, to plan a museum. Seven years prior, the Linnean Society of New England had broken up, giving the natural history exhibits which it had collected for nine years to Harvard College, which gladly passed the collection to the new museum...