Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for this improvement, McNiff said, may be partially due to the system of fines instituted three years ago. Fines on reserve books are now 25 cent per hour, with a maximum of two dollars the first day overdue, and one dollar per day every day thereafter. Prior to 1953, a two dollar fine was the maximum for a reserve book...
...There is not the slightest hint of documentation over my signature in the entire Defense Department report which even remotely suggests my support of these territorial concessions which so adversely altered the course of future events in Asia; or that after my initial recommendation in 1941 I advocated prior to Yalta that Russia enter the Pacific war. To hold the contrary is to prevaricate the truth and the record...
Harris, 31, was recently named to head our Chicago Bureau. The dozen years prior to that he had devoted in about equal measure to the university, the Army and journalism. And behind that was the land...
Each club, moreover, should send to the forum a delegation prepared to record the club's majority viewpoint on the topic. If a club must declare itself pro or con in the public meeting, there must be much prior discussion among its own members in order to decide on a stand. On the other hand, if groups sent individuals speaking only for themselves, the forum would soon degenerate into a series of personal testaments. This would hardly give students a chance to experience real parliamentary debates...
Soon after, on Dec. 29, 1170 four knights with a band of brigands approached Canterbury Cathedral. When the prior tried to bar the doors, the archbishop said: "The House of God should not be made a castle. I command you, under holy obedience, to open those doors!" In cold detail, Author Duggan describes how Becket, the trained warrior, suffered the fatal sword blows, and said, with his dying breath: "For the Holy Name of Jesus and the safety of His Church, I offer myself to death...