Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Before 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom.

" Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1, 093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent lightbulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric light.

Before the Gettysburg Campaign, Pickett fell in love with a Virginia teenager, LaSalle " Sallie " Corbell ( 1843 – 1931 ), commuting back and forth from his duties in Suffolk to be with her.

' Before the demise of the paper in 1931, many of the best reporters in America worked for it.

Before the start of the 1931 season, Frankford Stadium was severely damaged by a fire, forcing the club to find another location for its home games.

* The Decisive Year, 1931: Capitalism, Imperialism, Sovietism Before the Bar of History.

Before its adoption in 1931, the official flag of the Isle of Man was the Union Flag.

Before this occupation, according to 1931 census, Yugoslav Bačka had 784, 896 inhabitants, of whom 284, 865 Yugoslavs ( Serbs, Croats, Bunjevci, Šokci ), 268, 711 Hungarians and 169, 858 Germans.

Before graduation from James Monroe High School in 1931 ( at age 16 ), he had also become interested in archeology, Latin, romantic poetry and, inevitably, Shakespeare.

Before a recent revival, the Conservative Party last won council seats in the area in 1931.

Before the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Taradale and Greenmeadows were separated from distant Napier by a harbour lagoon and tidal mudflats, bridged from 1874 by the corduroy Taradale Road.

Before the Second World War, Polish Radio operated one national channel – broadcast from 1931 from one of Europe's most powerful longwave transmitters, situated at Raszyn just outside Warsaw and destroyed in 1939 by the invading German Army – and nine regional stations:

Before long, the Perkins Products Company was focusing entirely on Kool-Ade, and in 1931 Mr. Perkins relocated to Chicago.

Before the merger was finalised, however, Fall River Marksmen had entered the 1931 National Challenge Cup and Mark was unable to re-register them as the Yankees.

Before the start of each AFL match, players run through a banner constructed by supporters.

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

Before the DNS was invented in 1982, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS. TXT from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

Before beginning the construction, the vertex figure ABCD is obtained by cutting each connected edge at ( in this case ) its midpoint.

Before beginning Ideen Husserl's thought had reached the stage where " each subject is ' presented ' to itself, and to each all others are ' presentiated ' ( Vergegenwartigung ), not as parts of nature but as pure consciousness.

Before heterodyning, radio signals often overrode and interfered with each other.

Before a cell divides, the DNA is copied, so that each of the resulting two cells will inherit the DNA sequence.

Before then each referee had always been assigned to a specific match by a special commission of referees ( designatori arbitrali ).

Before mating, each male excavates a brood site, a saucer-shaped depression under a rock or log with its entrance positioned out of the direct current, usually pointing downstream.

Before going to bed, each member of the household would leave an item of clothing or strip of cloth outside for Brighid to bless.

Before 1814, the history of nobility is separate for each of the eleven provinces that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people.

Before the players sit down they must complete a task that the music person gives out before each round.

Before long, a more advanced pantograph-based process made it possible to simultaneously produce 90 – 150 copies of each record.

Before the institution of interleague play in 1997, the two teams would have little opportunity to play each other.

Before Limbaugh, their day time talk show hosts were local and not particularly partisan, each quite a bit different from the other, and had diverse conversations on a wide variety of topics from both local and national politics, to food, to interviews with interesting people, book authors, and so forth.

Before racing, each athlete received three sheets of paper listing a few rules and a course description.

Before each run the athlete and his or her sled are weighed at the start ramp.

Before 1982, the excutive of a department was the prefect ( préfet ) who represents the Government of France in each department and is appointed by the President of France.

Before the end of the war in August 1945, the HEW built 554 buildings at Hanford, including three nuclear reactors ( 105-B, 105-D, and 105-F ) and three plutonium processing canyons ( 221-T, 221-B, and 221-U ), each long.

Before doing the procedure, scientists must carefully calculate exactly what needs to be done, and treat each patient on an individual case-by-case basis.

Before speaking, each guest politely waits for the current speaker to finish.

Before each mission is a planning stage, during which the player is given a briefing, and then chooses the operatives to be involved in the mission, their weapons, equipment and uniform / camouflage.

Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds, ( six or four according to the telling ) which forced her to return to the underworld for some months each year.

Before 2003, the library was housed in the township ’ s municipal building on Salem Road.

Before Shohola township was formed, Shohola Creek divided Lackawaxen and Upper Smithfield Townships.

Before The Workers township was built, Åbøbyen 1917.

Before the land was officially transferred to Canada, McDougall sent out surveyors to plot the land according to the square township system used in Ontario.

Before 1894 Ashton-in-Makerfield was a township in the parish of Winwick, part of the West Derby Hundred of Lancashire.

Before entering federal politics, Bellemare served on the council for the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton from 1980 to 1985 and the township and then city council for Gloucester from 1966 to 1988.

Before the construction of the Gippsland railway line, Narre Warren North was actually the location of the Narre Warren township.

Before 1912, Ohrid was a township center bounded to Monastir sanjak in Monastir province ( present-day Bitola ).

Before these new transport links were constructed, there was just a scattering of farmhouses forming part of the township of Marsden, which also covered what was to become Nelson.

Officials inaugurated the new town a year after on January 7, 1919 naming Fortunato Arban town mayor. Before the citizens of Pauli won back their township, Inocente Sumague donated a piece of land for the construction of a church in 1916.

Before 1837 the area was briefly considered for the site of the colony's capital ; a ' special survey ' was undertaken in 1839 – 40 with a sizeable township laid out at Currency Creek and land for a port with substantial warehousing on the river where Goolwa now stands ; however, the treacherous waters of the Murray Mouth for shipping made it unsuitable as a major port.

Before this Cronton was a township and civil parish, part of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Prescot in West Derby Hundred within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.

Before the Balkan Wars, it was a township ( kaza ) with the name Köprülü in Uskub sandjak, vilayet, Ottoman empire.

Before Banayoyo became a township, during the 18th century, it was part of the now municicpalities of Candon and Santiago.

Before his term ended, he sanctioned the separation of the barrios of Mapanit, Bessang, Patac, Balugang, Callitong, and Sabangan Pinggan from the township of Lidlidda to be made part of the town of Burgos, Ilocos Sur.

Before the St. Elizabeth's flood ( 1421 ) a township named Hoecke was located on the spot of the present-day town.