Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prior to the year 1898 life in Oklahoma was not complex for Jackson Barnett, a Creek Indian. He could neither read nor write, but he easily satisfied his humble needs by laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack?plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...
Some idea of the large issue at stake was embodied last week in an address to the House of Commons by that discerning Liberal statesman, Lieutenant Commander Honorable Joseph Montague Kenworthy. He pictured a naval race between Britain and the U. S., similar to that between Britain and Germany prior to the World War. Said Commander Kenworthy portentously...
...value. The business conducted by the corporation is that of dealing in human hair goods. Since the fashion of bobbing hair came in, the business of dealing in hair has shrunk considerably and has destroyed the good will which any business of this nature may have had in prior years...
Fifth That such representatives shall have never received pecuniary assistance toward their support and maintenance as athletes during any portion of their university career or any period prior there...
Seventh--That the appointed stewards of the meeting authorized to act for the four universities concerned be requested to lodge with the honorary secretary of the Amateur Athletic Association of London, on some date prior to the above meeting, lists of the collected teams, together with certificates that each member of said team is a bona fide student and a bona fide amateur athlete