Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prior to 1870 Rome and the Papal States were governed by the Vatican. The final act of the risorgimento (resurrection of the Italian State) was the forcible occupation of Rome (Sept. 20, 1870) by the troops of King Vittorio Emanuele I. Since that time the Popes have considered themselves prisoners in the Vatican, and have steadfastly refused to accept the annual appropriation of revenues, equivalent to their former revenues from the Papal States, granted them by the Italian Parliament. The King was excommunicated and all good Catholics forbidden to take part in national elections...
...been the custom in debates in Cambridge this year, there will be no consultation between the judges prior to their rendering a decision. This is done in order to prevent a complimentary unanimous vote being given when one of the three judges may have disagreed. The audience will also vote, and while their ballots are being counted, the chairman will give a brief speech...
...official proclamation President Coolidge restored citizenship to men who deserted from the Army and Navy between the Armistice and the conclusion of our treaty of peace with Germany. The proclamation did not commute any court martial sentences, nor restore citizenship to those who deserted prior to the Armistice...
...those who remember the celebrated. Presidents' Agreement" of last year. The avowed purpose of this agreement was, it will be recalled, to abate a dangerously increasing, "over-emphasis" on football, of which pre-season practice, "championship" teams and "tramp athletes" were merely symptoms. As a result, all practice prior to the September opening of College was discontinued and of course, the schedules were proportionally reduced...
...last big test prior to its clash with Yale, the Freshman five were defeated 27 to 18 by a powerful Exeter quintet...