Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duel in the Sun. In Los Angeles, the junior chamber of commerce received five battered umbrellas from the Miami junior chamber of commerce to aid its fight against "torrential rains," declined to use them because "the umbrellas went through Florida hurricane prior to shipment...
Bureaucracy's Hand. In Utrecht, The Netherlands, Paul Verra got a $1.60 fine or a day in jail for living with his wife at her father's house without prior approval of the local housing authority...
...More & more property is being damaged by terrific rains and winds each year . . . Notwithstanding any "impossibles" that the AEC brain trust may put forth against the theory that these weather changes are directly attributable to atomic tests ... we did not have the type of weather we're getting, prior to those tests-so let Gordon Dean and his handmaidens come up with some sort of explanation. Better yet, let AEC start conducting their tests elsewhere. I offer the ideal place: Washington, D.C., provided all office doors can be locked, with the occupants inside. Use of that locale would cause...
...Kappa) and Harvard Law School, organized his own law firm in Manhattan in 1922. In 1930, President Hoover made him a district court judge; he presided with the stern sense of duty of his Yankee forebears. President Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There he was emptying garbage cans on a K.P. detail in the summer of 1940 when he heard that Roosevelt wanted...
...Only this endures in the Flight: discussion. Discussion is prior to whatever is being discussed. It is the mechanism of the Flight. Within it everything can make a sudden appearance, everything is reduced by it to a dead level. When something is lost in the discussion, one fails to notice...