Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

Before the impact, models of Jupiter's atmosphere had indicated that the break-up of the largest fragments would occur at atmospheric pressures of anywhere from 30 kilopascals to a few tens of megapascals ( from 0. 3 to a few hundred bar ), with some predictions that the comet would penetrate a layer of water and create a bluish shroud over that region of Jupiter.

* Before 2: 30 PM, Iran announces that it has closed its border with Afghanistan.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official New York City missing count has risen to 4972.

* Before 2: 30 PM, the official death count at the Pentagon has risen to 189, including the 64 in the plane.

* Before 3: 00 PM, The New York Stock Exchange is successfully tested for its morning open at 9: 30 AM EDT.

Before that, in 1408, the university had about 200 doctors and magisters, 500 bachelors, and 30, 000 students ; it now lost a large part of this number, accounts of the loss varying from 5000 to 20, 000 including 46 professors.

Before the arrival of Voyager 2, astronomers suspected that Triton might have liquid nitrogen seas and a nitrogen / methane atmosphere with a density as much as 30 % that of the Earth.

Before the members of both houses returned home on 30 March, they were required to swear an oath accepting the Act of Succession, and all the King's subjects were now required to swear to the legitimacy of the marriage and, by implication, to acceptance of the King's new powers and the break from Rome.

Before the arrival of Europeans, an estimated 30 million people lived in South America.

Before 1974, NFL teams kicked off from the 40 ; starting in 1974, the NFL moved its kickoffs back to the 35, and twenty years later, the kickoff line was pushed back to the 30.

Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, President George W. Bush met with Senator Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room ( White House ) | Blue Room at the White House on July 30, 2002

Before its destruction in 226 BC — due to an earthquake — the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 meters ( 107 ft ) high, making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.

Before the discovery of tetracycline and chloramphenicol during the latter 1940s, as many as 30 percent of persons infected with R. rickettsii died.

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

Before its merger with Jacobswoude, the municipality covered an area of 30. 91 km² ( 11. 93 mile² ) of which 3. 94 km² ( 1. 52 mile² ) is water.

Before the end of World War I, more than 30, 000 men received their basic training there.

She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa ( 1990 ), The Voyager ( 1991 ), Three Colors: White ( 1993 ), Before Sunrise ( 1995 ), Before Sunset ( 2004 ), and 2 Days in Paris ( 2007 ).

In 2009, Bit-tech included Planescape: Torment on their list of " 30 PC Games to Play Before You Die ".

This was followed on April 30, 2008, by an appearance on American Idol when he sang " Pretty Amazing Grace " from his album Home Before Dark.

Before moving to the stadium, Manchester City spent in excess of £ 30 million to convert it to football use.

11: 30: Before sleeping, President Bush enters into his journal: " The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today ... We think it's Osama bin Laden.

Before he died in England, he was supported by an admirer's annual pension of £ 30.