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Word: prior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prior to the Civil War the question of Negro suffrage was debated and in most states settled against the Negro. At the time of the Civil War only five states had no color qualification on the books: Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont; but in practice unhindered Negro suffrage was limited to Maine...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Teenage Vote: More to be Gained than Lost | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...Institute in Hoboken, he caught malaria, and was sent to the East to recuperate. Upon returning, he declared "I will spend the rest of my life studying Asia." Spending the next few years as President of the Crane Plumbing Company in Chicago, he managed a few trips to Russia. Prior to the Revolution, Crane began a movement within the Orthodox Church to repeal all dogma and ritual added since the Romanoffs. Success was nearly at hand when the Bolsheviks stormed Leningrad. All Crane could salvage from his dream were the church bells which he gave to Harvard...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Bellboys and Tailors | 4/21/1954 | See Source »

...debate team meets a strong Southern California squad tonight in its final match prior to the national championships tomorrow. George M. Frederickson '56 and Robert M. O'Neil '56 will argue for the College at 8 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Meect U.S.C. Tonight; U.S. Tourney Begins Tomorrow | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...which both CEEB and ETS passed through this transition period belongs to Henry Chauncey, the Testing Service's president. Chauncey, the Testing Service's president. Chauncey, an ex-Crimson football star and director of the college's scholarship program before the war, served as Director of the College Board prior to the founding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Testing Service Now Aids All of U.S. Education | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...that policy is, and how frank a friend can be, could be measured last week by a little-reported but significant statement of official U.S. attitudes. The statement came from Henry A. Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs, and it had the prior approval of John Foster Dulles. Speaking in Ohio, before members of the Dayton World Affairs Council, West Pointer Byroade had some plain-spoken advice on the Middle East for both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Plain Talk | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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