Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward VII: "[The Mordaunt divorce trial] occurred in February, 1870. ... Sir Charles Mordaunt had instituted the proceedings to fix the paternity of the child. . . . The Prince (later Edward VII), it was conceded, visited young Lady Mordaunt frequently prior to the birth of the child. . . . Immediately following the baby's birth she made a confession to her husband, implicating the Prince of Wales, Lord Cole, Sir Frederick Johnston and others. . . . Notwithstanding a jury verdict completely exonerating Edward . . . the scandal touched Alexandra a little more than any other...
They did so. The deportations were halted overnight. Chastened Mexican police liberated such clergymen as they had locked up prior to deportation. Assurances were given that the religious clauses of the decidedly "advanced" Mexican Constitution will not be enforced, at least for the present...
...Prior to Professor Murray's leadership of English A Professor C. N. Greenough '98, Dean of Harvard College, was in charge of the course. During his regime the printed manuals and schedules were introduced...
MORE LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER-St. John de Crève-coeur-Yale University Press ($4). Letters from an American Farmer, published in England in 1782, is a book known to serious students of the period of American history just prior to and during the Revolution. Buried for nearly a century and a half in the cabinets of the Crèvecoeur family, unpublished manuscripts were discovered. Even for casual readers the book has interest and the sort of charm inherent in any narrative that sincerely, accurately and with reasonable adequacy portrays the life of a period, however restricted...
...public interest is not always accompanied by commensurate public financial support. The Museum received $400,000 in cash and specimens last year from benefactors, which was more than in any prior year. Yet in making his annual report of the Museum's affairs last week, President Henry Fairfield Osborn* was obliged to tell the trustees that the institution was financially crippled...