Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other titles to distinction. After his graduation from Annapolis in 1863, he fought with Damn-the-Torpedoes Farragut at Mobile Bay. The next year he engaged in the storming of Fort Fisher. Following the Civil War, at only 23, he was made a Lieutenant Commander, and in the years prior to 1898 took part in many activities?served with the Asiatic Squadron, taught at Annapolis, invented instruments for deep sea sounding, drew cartoons for the Daily Graphic of New York. At one time, in command of the Blake, he made a considerable stir. The vessel was anchored off a reef...
Although it was not advisable to carry out the provisions of the Treaty prior to its ratification by all the contracting parties, both Great Britain and the United States have taken steps in that direction. Some time ago the Navy Department dismantled six more or less obsolete vessels of such material as could be utilized elsewhere. Several other ships were partially dismantled, and operations were suspended on those being built...
...bombshell was exploded under the placid forms of Sir Horace Rumbold and General Pelle, British and French representatives at Lausanne, when Ismet Pasha announced that concessions prior to 1914, which he had consented to confirm in the Concessions Protocol, invaded the Chester concessions, and that his agreement must be reconsidered...
...Legislative Assembly at Calcutta asked for the immediate release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison. The Government of India refused, saying it was unwise to release such a dangerous agitator prior to the completion of his sentence...
Edward of Wales: "A British advertising man, visiting the U. S., announced that I intend to visit ' Canada, Australia and other of the dominions ' prior to the British Empire Exposition, which opens at Wembley, near London, next Spring...