Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basketball now owes its existence to Mr. Geer. For fifteen years prior to his arrival, the game had been utterly abandoned, but Mr. Geer caused its return into the curriculum of University athletics...
...wisdom of developing even a graduate school of agriculture in the most highly industrialized section of the country. Only so far then as Professor East's report recommends coordination of existing facilities and their proper upkeep can it meet with approval. Other departments of the University have a prior claim to expansion...
...this, Mr. Mellon replied that the company had other creditors prior to the Government; that, if the Government had pressed its entire claim, it would have thrown the company into bankruptcy with the chance that the Government might get nothing. So the Treasury investigated, determined how much it thought the company could raise from its bankers and accepted that amount...
Powell, when interviewed admitted that his photographs were taken prior to these of Mr. Hewitt. "Hewitt", he said, "took his picture at Easthampton, long Island, while mine was taken at New Haven. The eclipse came to New Haven first, so that I beat him by six seconds", he added laughing...
Professor Emerton's subject will be "The Church as a Sovereign State", discussing what is perhaps the most conspicuous example in history of civil government conducted by the church. He will deal with the government of papal territory prior to the Napoleonic epoch, and will discuss especially the relation of this system of church government to its code of laws...