Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Before that we lumber dealers were working almost single-handed on the problem ''.

Before WWII British ' social anthropology ' and American ' cultural anthropology ' were still distinct traditions.

Before this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.

Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.

Before the 20th century, most manufactured products were made individually by hand.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

Before the arrival of the British, Rajputs, Jats, the Kathats, Cheetas and Rawat Rajputs were land-holders, as well as cultivators.

Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

Before the 19th century, tattoos and piercings were very common among the Aleut people, especially among women.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before that time, all sacrifices were counted as sacrifice hits ( SH ), which included both sacrifice flies and bunts.

Before the adoption of carbon fibre composite, racquets were made of light metals such as aluminium.

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Before the mid-1960s, computers were extremely expensive and used only for special-purpose tasks.

Before this time bricks were generally made close to their point of intended use.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before the rise of the mendicant orders ( wandering friars ) in the thirteenth century, the daily services were usually contained in a number of large volumes.

Before the advent of printing, breviaries were written by hand and were often richly decorated with initials and miniature illustrations telling stories in the lives of Christ or the saints, or stories from the Bible.

Before the question could be answered, the notion of " algorithm " had to be formally defined.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

Before 630 million years ago, boundaries on the geologic timescale are defined simply by reference to fixed dates, known as " Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages ".

Before Moseley and his law, atomic numbers had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary ordering number, vaguely increasing with atomic weight but not strictly defined by it.

Raw, i. e., uncalibrated, radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years " Before Present " ( BP ), with " present " defined as CE 1950.

Before tract development, beginning in the early 1970s, Lawrenceville was broadly defined as stretching two to three blocks back from Route 206.

Before explaining these new rules, the term Replenishment Time must be defined.

Before, a community was defined as a group from a single location.

Before sculpting, the sculptors actually created an image and indicated the six structural centers as defined by Yoga principles, of which navel is also one.

Before the discovery of ribozymes, enzymes, which are defined as catalytic proteins, were the only known biological catalysts.

Before matrix mechanics, the old quantum theory described the motion of a particle by a classical orbit, with well defined position and momentum X ( t ), P ( t ), with the restriction that the time integral over one period T of the momentum times the velocity must be a positive integer multiple of Planck's constant

Before 1944, the legal status of evangelical groups such as the Baptists was not well defined.

Before the Thayer Conference defined school psychology, practitioners used seventy-five different professional titles.

“ Before this message can have an ‘ effect ’ ( however defined ), or satisfy a ‘ need ’ or be put to a ‘ use ’, it must first be perceived as a meaningful discourse and meaningfully de-coded ”.

Before the 1930s, textbooks defined the moment using magnetic poles.

Before 32 weeks of gestation, accelerations are defined as having a peak greater than or equal to 10 bpm and a duration of greater than or equal to 10 seconds.

Before the function was defined, Lisp functions were manually compiled to assembly language statements.

Before NATO defined the term, the British and Commonwealth armies generally used “ neutralisation ” with the same definition as suppression.

Before the term folkloristics can be fully understood, it is necessary to understand that the terms folk and lore are defined in many different ways.

Before 1933, the terminus of the Holston River was defined as the location downstream of Knoxville at Lenoir City, where the Little Tennessee River enters the river.

" Before inertia set in, he played one fascinatingly complex character, craftily directed by Nicholas Ray, in a film whose title perfectly defined Humphrey's own isolation among people.

Before the cell is photolithographically defined and etched, the top electrode is deposited as a metal film onto the CNT layer so that the top metal electrode is patterned and etched during the definition of the NRAM cell.

Before ERISA, some defined benefit pension plans required decades of service before an employee's benefit became vested.

Before the Pension Protection Act of 2006 ( PPA ), a defined benefit plan maintained a " funding standard account ", which was charged annually for the cost of benefits earned during the year and credited for employer contributions.