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Word: prior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Eastland you say: "He does not face the question of how a constitutional system of government can operate unless some judicial process can determine in disputed cases what the Constitution means." What you will not face is the fact that the court had on many prior occasions already determined what the Constitution means on this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Vice-President Richard M. Nixon was invited by the forum but he refused pleading a prior engagement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace and Howe Meet in Forum Today | 3/30/1956 | See Source »

...recent debate on whether or not President Eisen-hower should run for re-election following a heart attack would never have arisen in the years prior to 1931. For, between 1912 when J.B. Herrick published the classical description of myocardial infarction and 1931, the condition was thought to be inevitably and rapidly fatal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President and Dr. White | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

More than that, it has created a boom in the occult. A West Coast hypnotist advertised an offer to "establish the prior existence" of all comers (at $25 an existence). Around the country, while hostesses gave "come as you were" parties and restaurants offered "reincarnation cocktails," ordinary Americans began turning up (often on TV screens) in earlier lifetimes as German leather merchants, French peasants, English princesses, and; in one case, a horse. In Shawnee, Okla., Bridey intrigued a 19-year-old newsboy so mightily that he killed himself after leaving a note that he was going to "investigate the theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Found: Bridey Murphy | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Kantrowitz has played basketball during all four years at the University. He was captain of his freshman team. Prior to college, he played for Natick High School, where he was captain and highest scorer in the league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Chooses Canty Captain | 3/15/1956 | See Source »

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