Word: beforehand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timing should show definite improvement this Saturday. Men who played against Dartmouth with only the minimum scrimmage time beforehand, Hal Moffie for instance, will be more crisp in their exceution Saturday...
...accordance with the traditional University procedure of keeping secret the names of honorary degree recipients beforehand, Massachusetts Hall yesterday refused to comment on what will happen in Harvard, Illinois today...
...muddy day on the playing field against Yale, the team repaired to the Hotel Bermudiana where for $2 a head they attended the annual Rugby Ball. For a time, the Bermudiana toyed with the idea of charging $4 a man, but a short poll of the eligible guests beforehand showed this figure to be prohibitive. Most players were able to tear themselves away from the commitments at the Elbow Beach Surf Club in time to attend this, the keynote ball of Rugby Week...
...autographs. When they wanted the signature of Mexican Cowboy Singer Negrete, hundreds of them piled right up on the stage. But they are avid practitioners of the U.S. custom of whistling in approval. The piercing whistles once drove a singer to tears when Manager Montalban forgot to explain beforehand that this was not the traditional Latin catcalling...
Thirteen Steps. It had been unseasonably warm in Tokyo, but on the last day it turned cold. The seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that he would be snatched from bed and executed so quickly that he would not have time to express properly his gratitude to the authorities...