Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureau advises seniors to ask their prospective schools when and if they should take the tests; it also requires that applications be filed at least ten days prior to the law exam and two weeks before the graduate school test...
London's Sunday Observer was set to add its voice to the critical clamor until the cold facts sunk in. Instead, the Observer confessed: "Everything . . . turns on the question; Was there, prior to the Yalu raids, a lull, a tacit cease-fire or near-cease-fire in Korea?" The Observer had done a little quick homework and was startled by its findings: "The plain fact-continuous and hence unreported-is that there has been a long-drawn battle which has been in progress almost since the start of the armistice talks." In this light, the Observer was alarmed...
...well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept...
...chairman of the special commission, Senator George J. Evans (R-Wake-field) filed a minority report in which he said that "the majority report simply amplifies a prior presumption." He said that analysis of the available figures on the number and distribution of doctors "shows that there is no substantial basis for the recommendation that Massachusetts establish a medical and dental college at the expense of the taxpayer...
...Allow an "impartial commission" to determine whether there exist in East Germany the conditions necessary for free elections. Such conditions-free balloting, freedom to campaign, etc.-must be maintained "not only on the day of voting, and prior to it, but also thereafter...