Word: prior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it against a nearby stone until the acolyte asked what he was doing...
...preparatory-school system" [TIME, Feb. 8]. Seventy-nine years old, long good friend and obviously contemporary of Groton's Peabody, Rev. Dom J. Hugh Diman, O.S.B., founded distinguished St. George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school in the U.S. No other man is the beloved founder of two "prep" schools. TIME should double its list. GERALD...
Thirty days prior to issuance of any order to ERC men unassigned, any men who have indicated their preference for the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, will have their names forwarded to Washington with the announcement that they are eligible for discharge from the ERC. In no case will such a man be inducted before the service of his indicated choice has had a chance to pass upon his suitability. Failure of a student to obtain admission to the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard will return him to the jurisdiction of the ERC program...
...completed its preparation to call to active duty enlisted reserve corps students covered by section g (7) of the Army Plan. These students will thereafter begin to receive orders to report for active duty at designated times and places. No orders will be given to report on a date prior to two weeks after the completion of the student's first academic quarter, term, or semester terminating after December...
...University of Texas, Professor A. E. Lockenvitz is recording the local earth fluctuations. With gravitimeters installed at various points, he hopes to be able to predict earthquakes by noting prior increases in earth tides...