Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broken Mold. No one knows when Fra Angelico first began to show the unmistakable signs of genius. Only a year after he took his final vows, his convent was thrown into turmoil as a result of the rival claims of three Popes. The Fiesole monks saw their prior arrested, and fled for safety to Foligno, then to Cortona. But from this nine-year period of exile, no record of Fra Angelico's activities has survived. One theory is that, on the Dominicans' return to Fiesole, Fra Angelico worked under Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese monk famed for his manuscript...
...expected at this stage in the healing process. This stability is a desirable finding. The scar in the heart-muscle wall appears to be firm and of moderate size. Fluoroscopic examination indicates that the heart beat is good . . . The heart shadow, compared with films that were made in prior years and with those that have been made since the acute attack developed, shows no significant evidence of enlargement...
...hysterical mother accusing her spinster sister of the willful murder of a three-month-old infant. After an endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment on NBC's Wide, Wide World also had a medical background, as the camera moved into a Baltimore schoolroom to record the moving responses of deaf children to the rhythms of music communicated through their fingertips...
Upperclassmen have not lived in the Yard since 1931, when the House system went into full operation. Prior to that date, it had been customary for most students in their senior year to move from scattered apartments into the Yard buildings...
Despite these disadvantages, the Act as a whole has many good points. As President Eisenhower noted when he singed it, the measure "provides a statutory means of assuring that our Federal Reserves will be composed of prior-trained men on a planned basis." It also doubles the current Reserve manpower ceiling...