Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the National Student Federation released information that two out of every five students who graduated in the last three years were promised employment prior to receiving their degree, and that 56 per cent of college and university graduates of the past three years have remunerative work at present. Employment bureaus have been established on nearly 90 per cent of the nation's campuses, the Federation's survey showed...
Standing firmly against a cheap dollar, he ran for re-election on a gold-standard, sound-money platform. At Des Moines he shocked his followers by declaring that a few months prior, the U. S. had been within two weeks of being forced off gold. To the Republicans the gold standard and "hard money" became a political fetish with which to frighten the electorate. But the electorate refused to be frightened and the Republicans lost the Presidency. Last January in the Senate inflationists mustered 18 votes for the Bryanesque 16-to-1 free coinage of silver, most discredited...
...binding. One of his predecessors, paunchy Shah Muzzafar-uddin, in 1901 signed away Persian oil rights to 500,000 sq. mi. of territory for $20,000. Canceling the concession last November Reza Shah announced as his excuse that a modern Persian Government must not be held to acts committed "prior to the establishment of a constitutional regime," i. e., the Government of Reza Shah...
...last week a Vermonter named Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December, 1833, received...
...gases and ending with spectroscopy and a discussion of the periodic table of the elements. Three weeks are spent in introducing the basic idea of the quantum theory, as it is evidenced in the photo-electric effect and the spectrum of hydrogen. Each experiment is described and demonstrated prior to the discussion of the theory which explains it. Agreement between theoretical and experimental results is carefully tabulated throughout. The mathematics is limited to algebra; integral signs are banned in order that the nonmathematical student may feel at home. There is a reading period...