Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just 'before six in the evening, prior to the dinner recess, when only a very few Senators remained in the chamber, Senator Hale brought up the bill and it was passed. Shortly afterward Senator King rushed in and made a motion to reconsider the bill. His motion was still pending at seven o'clock the next day when the Senate adjourned. Consequently, the bill was not sent to the President, who had indicated his intention of signing...
Hoover's rise in the past few weeks has been as sudden as either Jameson's or Johnson's. He was dropped with the third University crew just prior to the departure of the first squad for Philadelphia for practice on the Schuylkill river during the spring recess. Thereafter he rowed on the Senior Class Crew. When the decision was made to incorporate, the Sophomore A crew into a second University crew to row in the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, Hoover with Johnson was advanced to the second crew. He retained his position when the crews went...
...prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented a ray that is favorably considered in the Soviet war offices. The German Government is reported to have a ray machine that last year brought down 13 French planes in Bavaria (hushed up but later admitted by the French). John...
...Duchin c. 3 0 0 4 0 0 Booth p. 4 0 0 1 5 0 Total 36 2 4 33 14 3 Andover a.b. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. Parisien r.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 Randall 3b. 4 0 0 2 1 2 Prior 1b. 5 0 1 13 1 0 Mumby s.s. 5 1 1 1 0 1 Dudley c. 4 0 1 13 2 0 Vaughan 2b. 5 0 1 1 3 0 Jones c.f. 4 0 2 0 0 0 *Brown 1 0 0 0 0 0 McClellan...
...final change in crew A yesterday afternoon brought Weymer from the second boat to seat four in the first shell, displacing Raymond, who takes Weymer's old position in the junior University crew. The new combinations had a stiff work-out yesterday afternoon prior to packing up for their departure from Cambridge...