Word: prior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to having served overseas, men in the first group are not only college graduates, but had several years of business experience before enlisting in the Navy. Following enlistment and prior to overseas assignment, they completed a four-month course in the Navy Supply Corps School, which is located at the Business School and is operated by a Navy faculty under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh...
When the Blue Network had the happy notion of calling itself the ABC (for American Broadcasting Corp.), one Leonard Adrian Versluis (rhymes with caboose) protested. His Associated Broadcasting Corp. of Grand Rapids claimed prior rights to the catchy initials. This week Versluis' ABC announced that it was about to become (on Sept. 16) the nation's fifth coast-to-coast network...
...judge China, not in terms of China's own past but in terms of the West. They assume the bad conditions are the result of the present Government's failures, when in reality conditions became not worse, but very much better under that Government in the years prior...
...belong to the Class of 1945, 55 to the Class of 1946, and four to the Class of 1947, while 16 are members of classes prior to that of 1945 who are finishing out the course. Twenty of the graduates are members of the V-12 Unit and of the NROTC...
While on duty aboard [ship] in Leyte Gulf a short time prior to the Lingayen invasion, we had many native dugout canoes around our ship, their occupants, of course, being mainly interested in food and clothing. In one such canoe was what appeared to be an entire family, the mother of which was sitting in the stern, paying no attention to the bartering going on, but rather being apparently deeply engrossed in a copy of TIME. I tried to attract her attention with no luck as she was apparently thoroughly enjoying what she was reading...