Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stork Sanford's Big Red, besides losing to the Crimson at Princeton, have also lost to both Yale and the Tigers in the sprint in the Carnegie Cup race the week before, but only three-quarters of a length separated all three boats. Prior to that race the low-stroking Ithaca crew had turned in easy victories over B.U., Columbia, and Syracuse twice...
...firmness, Pine refused to accept the Administration's argument that past emergency actions by a President sanctioned the steel seizure. Many of the precedents, he pointed out, were based on specific laws. As to those without authority of statute, "it is difficult to follow [the] argument that several prior acts apparently unauthorized by law, but never questioned by the courts, by repetition clothe a later unauthorized act with the cloak of legality ... I disagree." Then, in a series of blunt paragraphs, Judge Pine rejected the Administration's whole philosophy of government by expediency. Wrote Pine...
...Last week one of the leading prospects for the Democratic presidential nomination tried to produce his own home-grown species of the purebred "no." Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, who was the Truman Democrats' favorite favorite son, said it as explicitly as he could: "In view of my prior commitment to run for governor, and my desire and the desire of many who have given me their help and confidence in our unfinished work in Illinois, I could not accept the nomination for any other office this summer...
Leavitt has some good, experienced men to draw from, at least on the top level. Only one oarsman, number five man Dick Darrell, has not had any rowing experiences prior to last fall, while the others were all on top prep school crews last season...
...companies are expected to continue paying their executives' salaries while they are attending the program. Though there are several men famous both in and out of the business world, in the class, the typical member is likely to be about 45 years old, with 15 to 20 years of prior business experience...