Word: pre-war
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...next time you attend a dance, notice what has happened to the stage line. It's gone. That's what's happened. And in its place, lathes and blow torches left behind, are lined the female counter-part of the pre-war wolf. Pretty? Oh, yes! - Good dancer? By all means! Intelligent? Foxy's the word, son. God conversationalist? She can tell you all about additional allowances...
Dick Harlow had hardly any material in the fall, with a death of veterans and fewer coaches. He molded a team which people called a fighting team, but it didn't win many. The last-second, 19 to 14 victory over Princeton, strictly in pre-war tradition, compensated for a lot of things, but not for the heart-breaking, 7 to 3 loss to Yale on a rainy afternoon at New Haven. It's tough to lose the last one, somehow, especially the last one for a long while...
Under no circumstances may the renewal of the Hull program be toyed with as a political issue before Congress, for the discontinuance of these agreements would be a clear indication to the world of a retreat to pre-war isolationism and "America First...
...high point showed the interdependence of technological research and scientific progress in the structure of a free society. But liberal education must be continued in its present or pre-war role, and not crowded out of the educational picture. But here Conant predicted that it would experience a renaissance in the post-war...
...Russian soil" from the Nazi armies, meaning that he intends to keep only those regions which used to be part of old Tsarist Russia: the Baltic Provinces of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania which in 1940 voted almost unanimously (under pressure) for incorporation into the Soviet the eastern half of pre-war Poland, occupied by Russian in 1939 and inhabited largely not by Poles but by White Russians and Lithuanians; the Ukraine; Bessarabia; and bits of Bukovina and Moldavia. If, in addition to gaining these wide territories for protection against Germany, he is convinced that the Western Allies will take effective...