Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of fact, more work goes into preparing these gab fests than the calibre of the chit-chat that final results would indicate. We discovered all this the other week when prior to a Monday appearance on Capp's show we were asked to appear for a "little get to together...just so we'll know what we're talking about...
...more furor raised over the loss to Centre than several losing seasons have caused in recent Crimson grid history. Contrary to current myth, the Centre eleven was not a bunch of small college hicks from Kentucky. The Colonels had walloped national champion West Virginia the previous year and prior to the 1921 Harvard contest had beaten powerhouse Crimson and run several lesser lights into the ground. The day of the game, in fact, the CRIMSON predicted a "battle royal" and 43,000 fans didn't jam the Stadium to see a rout. They didn...
...Prior to tonight's meeting, representatives from the Council may meet with Dean Bender, chairman of the Administrative Board, to get further-clarification his stand regarding the parietal rule and to find out if he has any alternate recommendations to the Council proposal
Both are short less than 100 pages--and the same size and shape. Further, both works are in essay form and appeared in magazines prior to publication as volumes. But they are as different as the two cities they deal with. Where White was soft, Algren is hard; where the former wrote quietly, lightly, and as a New Yorker, Algren speaks loudly and unhappily, and beneath his smooth flow of prose there is violent opinion...
Atatürk and his followers actually considered the lack of roads a defense weapon. Turkish defense thinking prior to 1947 was sometimes described as the "Gallipoli mind." Widely separate cadres of troops were assigned to defend mountain passes and strategic positions. They had their orders-plant the flag on the hilltop and stick until every man died. If there were no roads, the thinking ran, then the enemy would have a harder time moving than the defenders would have defending. The new military equipment and tactical conception the U.S. brought to Turkey in 1947 demanded that the Gallipoli approach...