Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prior to considering the motion, Council representatives had conferred with members of the administration, the Department of Athletics, the Financial Aid Office, and members of the student body...
...Prior to last summer's festival, Harry H. Lunn, Jr., president of the NSA, charged that nearly 30,000 non-Polish young people would receive financial aid to be able to attend. "An estimate for the budget of such a meeting would be an accurate indication of its importance in furthering the purposes of those who are financially supporting it," he said...
...speech sitting down, paused frequently, and once asked the indulgence of the house while he rested. "I am prepared," he said, "to meet with the Prime Minister of Egypt and with every other Arab ruler as soon as possible in order to achieve a mutual settlement without any prior conditions...
Kamin answered that he had worded the statement carefully, but that prior to the hearing he had only a "strong surmise" as to McCarthy's reason for summoning him. He said he had presumed "the Senator's primary interest was in my relation to Harvard University...
...court did not hand down its decision until July 6. But when it came, it said in blunt language that Brattle Films, Inc., had won without trouble. Justice Wilkins wrote in the decision, "We think that (the Sunday censorship law) is void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments...It is unthinkable that there is a power, absent as to secular days, to require the submission to advance scrutiny by governmental authority of newspapers to be published on Sunday, or sermons to be preached...