Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should have read our Kipling prior to the Paris summit collapse and when the spirit of Camp David prevailed. In 1898 he published The Truce of the Bear, containing the line, ". . . the bear that walks like a man!" The poem tells of a clawed and blinded old hunter who says...
Says the Very Rev. Dom Aelred Gra ham, prior of the Portsmouth Priory, a Benedictine monastery whose monks run the exclusive Portsmouth Priory School, which annually sends the majority of its graduates to non-Catholic colleges (top favorite: Harvard) : "Sooner or later, boys are going to have to face the challenge of the unbelieving modern world. The ques tion is: Where are they going to do it? St. Thomas Aquinas stated that an inade quate argument for religion invites the derision of nonbelievers. If a boy at a Catholic college has the impression that his religious problems are not being...
...common occurrence as a rough landing, the struts beneath the four engines no longer held the engine nacelle tightly enough in place. Said McBrearty: "All of our tests and calculations substantiate the conviction that some element of damage existed in the power-package-nacelle area of both Electras prior to their accidents." Even then, the Electras might have flown in relative safety except for violent air turbulence encountered at the Electra's speed (more than 400 m.p.h.). When the planes hit rough air, the impact apparently set their weakened nacelles to shimmying, and the engines swayed so that...
...Thank you for your letter of March ninth concerning the Wellesley fund-raising drive. I would be delighted to contribute towards this campaign, and accordingly, this note is a pledge of securities having the market value of approximately $150,000, this amount to be paid at my convenience prior to January...
...opportunity to cheer. Royalty abroad was behaving coolly. Margaret's closest European relative, King Olaf of Norway, sent his regrets and those of his son, Prince Harald, because of a "previous obligation." The obligation: the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Society of Sciences in Trondheim. Other pleas of "prior engagements" were arriving from continental royalty...