Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City. Among the bidders were a Harvard graduate and a Yale graduate, the former desiring to present it to the University library. The Yale man outbid the Harvard man, but when he learned that a Harvard man had been the under bidder, he declared that Harvard had the prior claim to the manuscript. Wishing to remain anonymous, he gave it to Mr. Keough, the Yale librarian with the request that it be sent as a gift from Yale to the Harvard library. Mr. Keough writes that while he does "not agree with the donor's desire to remain anonymous...
...Prior to the time that Casey at the Bat appeared, there were two other professional Caseys. One was Dan M., a pitcher with the Philadelphia Nationals for several years from 1886 on, and the other was Dennis, an outfielder with Baltimore in the Baltimore Association...
Died. Jimmy Ryan, 60, who played for 15 years prior to 1900 on the White Stockings (Chicago National League Baseball Club), in Chicago, of heart failure. Said to be the most accurate and clever thrower in the history of baseball, he had a record of more than 100 hits a season for 17 years, stole 440 bases...
While cotton planters and governmental authorities debate the best way of exterminating the boll weevil, the returns from this year's admittedly "short" crop are beginning to assume definiteness. Cotton ginned prior to Oct. 18 totaled 6,400,579 bales, compared with 6,978,321 last year. Evidently, as these figures show, there has been no rush this year to send the present cotton crop to market, partly, perhaps, because it is being withheld from sale in the hopes of obtaining higher prices later on, but mainly because there is less cotton than usual to market...
...average full time weekly wage, but with a maximum of $20 per week. The agreement under which the fund, and payments from it, are to be administered covers carefully all circumstances in connection with the plan likely to arise. It will terminate April 30, 1925, unless renewed or extended prior to that time...