Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disclose his private affairs; 2) that the inquiry in question was of a judicial nature and therefore out of the Senate's scope of action; 3) that the Senate Investigating Committee had no jurisdiction because a resolution had been passed as a result of the inquiry, prior to the alleged offense; 4) that the indictment charged no offense...
...Prior to the extraordinary discoveries of Dr. Schliemann on the supposed site of the windy city some decades ago, the whole history of Troy and its attackers and defenders was popularly supposed to be nothing more than a pleasing poetical fabrication, designed primarily to amuse the yokels of Sparta and Macedonia, and--although unwittingly--to provide material for the exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor...
...average annual consumption of whiskey in the U.S. during the ten years prior to Prohibition was 130, 000,000 gallons. In the calendar year 1923 whiskey withdrawn under Government permits was 1,696,360 gallons. The exact amount of bootleg whiskey consumed is not known...
...grip in which high schools and colleges have been held by the phantasm of athletic supremacy for the last forty or fifty years is significant of little more than the extremes to which new ideas can be driven. Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for the greater glory of Alma Mater. When the value of organized athletics was recognized, however, and the advantages of the element of extramural competition became apparent, the grotesque shapes to which the theory of mons sana in il pore sano was twisted by short sighted enthusiasts seemed to indicate on unreasoning...
...South Carolina a bill requiring medical examination of male applicants for marriage licenses, ten days prior to the date set for the marriage ceremony, passed the House...