Prior to this — before the Second World War — he was content with the role of an apolitical liberal intellectual: " Now teaching at a lycée in Laon [...] Sartre made his headquarters the Dome café at the crossing of Montparnasse and Raspail boulevards.

Prior to the release of Windows Media Player in Windows 98 Second Edition, separate programs, CD Player, Deluxe CD Player, DVD Player and Media Player, were included in old versions of Microsoft Windows for playback of media files.

Prior to this, there was an Australian version of Second Chance that aired in 1977 on Network Ten hosted by Earle Bailey and Christine Broadway and also produced by Grundy.

Prior to the Second World War, the township was a resort area with trains coming from New York City to stations at Charlotteburg, Newfoundland, Oak Ridge in the south and Hewitt ( also known as Sterling Forest station ) and Awosting in the north.

Prior to the establishment of the Second Law, many people who were interested in inventing a perpetual motion machine had tried to circumvent the restrictions of First Law of Thermodynamics by extracting the massive internal energy of the environment as the power of the machine.

Prior to the start of the Second World War technology had improved so that it appeared that the interceptor mission would be effectively impossible.

Prior to the Second World War, Kaunas, like many other cities in eastern Europe, had a significant Jewish population.

Prior to the Second Morrill Act, 17 states excluded blacks from access to the land grant colleges without providing similar educational opportunities.

Prior to the construction of The Pentagon during the 1940s, the Second Empire-style Ohio State Asylum for the Insane in Columbus, Ohio was reported to be the largest building under one roof in the U. S., though the title may actually belong to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, another Kirkbride Second Empire asylum.

Prior to 1827 the First Lord of the Treasury also held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer unless he was a peer and thus barred from that office ; in this case, the Second Lord of the Treasury usually served as Chancellor.

Prior to the Second World War, virtually all hog troughs were homemade.

Prior to the Grimsby Turnpike Act of 1765 the road ( track ) through Swallow seems to have followed a line close to Chapel Lane ; a green road ran from Swallow to Rothwell until the Second World War when it was ploughed up to grow crops and never re-instated.

Prior to the end of the Second World War the city was German and known as Hirschberg.

Prior to disestablishment, Second Fleet oversaw approximately 126 ships, 4500 aircraft, and 90, 000 personnel homeported at U. S. Navy installations along the East Coast.

Prior to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, it marked the end of a three-week period when church weddings were forbidden.

Prior to the establishment of the Empire, the territories of the Roman Republic had been divided among the members of the Second Triumvirate: Mark Antony, Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

Prior to the reforms instituted after the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church mandated fasting ( only one full meal per day plus two partial, meatless meals ) on all Ember Days ( which meant both fasting and abstinence from meat on Ember Fridays ), and the faithful were encouraged ( though not required ) to receive the sacrament of penance whenever possible.

* Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, Second Grand Prior of the order

Prior to the Second World War, there usually existed a division of racing for cars smaller and less powerful than Grand Prix racers.

Prior to the Second World War the British had built a large airfield to house a permanent RAF base, RAF China Bay and a fuel storage and support facilities for the Royal Navy and HMS Highflyer naval base based there.

Prior to the see of Constantinople's elevation to the dignity of Patriarch by the Second Ecumenical Council in 381, the primary jurisdiction in Asia Minor was the Patriarchate of Antioch.

Prior to the Second World War, the majority of immigrants to Australia had come from the United Kingdom-though most of Australia's Catholic immigrants had come from Ireland.

( See Pastoral Care of the Sick, USA numbers 243, 265 ) Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Apostolic Pardon was called the Apostolic Blessing.

Prior to World War 2, there was a higher percentage of endogamous marriages than after World War 2.

Prior to World War II, infantile paralysis ( or polio ) was widely accepted as the cause.

Prior to World War II, destroyers were light vessels with little endurance for unattended ocean operations ; typically a number of destroyers and a single destroyer tender operated together.

Prior to New World Pictures ' release of the film, Toho had the film dubbed in Hong Kong.

Prior to the invasion of neutral Belgium by German forces, Hergé published humoristic drawings in L ' Ouest, a paper run by future collaborator Raymond de Becker and which strongly advocated that Belgium not join the war alongside its World War One allies France and Britain.

Prior to the accident he had captained England 22 times, and, being only 27, was expected to lead them in the 1966 World Cup ; but he was never again selected for the national team.

Prior to World War II, Latvia bordered eastern Poland, but as a result of boundary changes by the Soviet Union, this territory was attached to Belarus.

Prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 detachable black or white plumes were worn with the pickehaube in full dress by German generals, staff officers, dragoon regiments, infantry of the Prussian Guard and a number of line infantry regiments as a special distinction.

Prior to World War II Porsche designed and built three Type 64 cars for a 1939 Berlin to Rome race that was cancelled.

Prior to World War I, the British explosives chemist Oswald Silberrad obtained British and U. S. patents for a series of plastic explosives called " Nitrols ", composed of nitrated aromatics, collodion, and oxidising inorganic salts.

Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.

Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin by the League of Nations after World War I, the Saarland ( or simply " the Saar ", as is frequently referred to ) did not exist as a unified entity.

Prior to World War II, 12-cylinder engines were found in many luxury models, including cars from: Packard 1916 to 1923, Daimler 1926 to 1937, Hispano-Suiza 1931, Cadillac 1931, Auburn 1932, Franklin 1932, Lincoln 1932, Rolls-Royce 1936, and Pierce-Arrow also 1936.

Prior to World War I, Gretzky's paternal grandfather Anton ( Tony ) Gretzky immigrated along with his family to Canada via the United States from the Russian Empire ( what is now Grodno, Belarus ).

Prior to World War II, a number of major population transfers were the result of bilateral treaties and had the support of international bodies such as the League of Nations.

Prior to World War I, he considered himself an agnostic.

Prior to World War II, blacks constituted about 3 % of Oakland's population.

Prior to the entry of Italy into World War I, Lussu joined the army and was involved in several skirmishes.

Prior to the arrival of Arab armies in Palestine, many paramilitary groups in the Arab World, including the Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Liberation Army ( ALA ), had volunteered to fight there.

Prior to World War II, hospitals provided ambulance service in many large cities.

Prior to World War I, bayonet doctrine was largely centered around the concept of ' reach '; that is, a soldier's theoretical ability, by use of an extremely long rifle and fixed bayonet, to bayonet an enemy soldier without having to approach within reach of his opponent's blade.

Prior to World War I, most of the cordite used by the British Government was produced in its own factories.

Prior to World War II she remarked in an interview with The New York Times Magazine that Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.