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 it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the home of Marine Corps aviation on the West Coast.

Before leaving for New Granada Morillo had decommissioned most of the irregular forces that had fought under Boves, except those that he took to New Granada.

* Before being decommissioned, Cartierville was the oldest continuously used flying field in Canada.

Before privatisation the power station was due to be decommissioned by the SECV by 2005, as had older plants at Newport and Yallourn.

Before the Revolution of 1932, the kingdom had no written constitution.

Before the Penguins, Pittsburgh had been the home of the NHL's Pirates from 1925 to 1932 and of the Hornets AHL franchise from the 1930s to 1967.

In the same vein is Iles's Before the Fact ( 1932 ), which became the Hitchcock movie Suspicion.

It is based on Francis Iles's 1932 novel Before the Fact.

Among her other films are Laughter ( 1930 ), Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ), Hot Saturday ( 1932 ) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss Before the Mirror ( 1933 ) directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed ( 1932 ) directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Before the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 the Government of Queensland asked John Bradfield to design a new bridge in Brisbane.

* Leap Before You Look ( 1932 )

Before 1932, Phleng Sansoen Phra Barami ( the Royal Anthem ) was used as the national anthem of Siam.

Before 1989, two versions of Cyrillic had been used: the Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet in 1924 – 1932 and 1938 – 89, and the historical Romanian Cyrillic alphabet until 1918., the former remains in use only in Transnistria.

Before opening the Abbey with a victory over Cambridge University Press in a friendly on 31 August 1932, United had played matches at a number of venues around the city.

* In Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact ( 1932 ), which is also set among the landed gentry ( and which was filmed in 1941 by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion ), a wealthy young woman becomes the wife, and eventually the victim, of a ruthless criminal.

Before 1932, Ribble Motor Services acquired the small local bus operators, including Waterloo and Crosby Motor Services ( Ribble Timetables Area 4 1932 ).

She followed Hemingway's work with nine more books in 1932 included William Faulkner's Sanctuary, Kay Boyle's Year Before Last, Dorothy Parker's Laments for the Living, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Night-Flight along with works by Alain Fournier, Charles-Louis Philippe, Paul Eluard, George Grosz, Max Ernst, and C. G. Jung.

* Before the Fact ( 1932 )

Before joining the Nazi Party in 1932, he worked as a teacher and editor.

Before her death, Murshida Duce named Dr. James S. B. MacKie ( 1932 – 2001 ) as her successor.

* The Free Negro Family: a Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War ( Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1932 )

Before 1932, the economic situation was chaotic, but the establishment of the Yuan of Manchukuo as the local monetary unit in parity with the Japanese Yen, and establishment of the Central Bank of Manchou as the central bank institution produced a relatively stable business climate.

Before marriage, she was Assistant to the then US Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, and the couple met at the international conference Macadam had arranged at Banff, Canada in 1932.

Before he went to Malaya as the colonial administrator, Thomas was the Governor of Nyasaland from 1929 to 1932.

Before the 1932 election, the governing Progressives formed an electoral alliance with the Manitoba Liberal Party.

* Kay Boyle Year Before Last 1932.