Word: pre-world
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington Post, has a nose for scoops. He establishes beyond all doubt that Wallace D. Fard, the mysterious silk salesman who convinced Muhammad that he was the embodiment of Allah on earth, was actually a New Zealand-born petty criminal. Evanzz adds fresh--if overblown--detail to the Muslims' pre-World War II entanglement with Satahota Takahashi, a shadowy radical who persuaded Muhammad that with Allah's blessing "the Japanese will slaughter the white man." Evanzz even provides snatches of FBI tapes of Muhammad bickering with his wife Clara over his philandering, which produced 13 out-of-wedlock children...
...calls his empire an Internet zaibatsu. It is a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s. Son doesn't want to own his companies outright, or to run them. He aims to gain implicit control with a 20%-to-30% stake in each and to build a web of mutual cross-investments with sales, marketing and supply ties. "I want us to be No. 1 in every area," says Son. In five years...
...most moviegoers, World War I might be a distant bleep on the grand spectrum of wars; World War II stands out not only because it is more recent but also because its brutality documented relentlessly. Grand Illusion asks the modern viewer to make the leap back into the pre-World War II and appreciate the depths of human devotion from a less jaded perspective, a task that ultimately proves impossible...
...These fears came to a head in the late 1960s, recalls Alan Westin, a retired Columbia University professor who publishes a quarterly report Privacy and American Business. "The techniques of intrusion and data surveillance had overcome the weak law and social mores that we had built up in the pre-World War II era," says Westin...
There's a comforting, Meet Me in St. Louis sweetness in the way this clan faces its small crises. But Uhry adds vinegar in the form of a sharply observed portrait of upper-middle-class Jews in the pre-World War II South. Theirs was a tricky dance of assimilation and accommodation, in which older families, like Lala's, scorned newer immigrants, represented by the kid from Brooklyn who has just gone to work for the family business. Uhry juggles a lot of elements with no evident strain: creating a believable family that seems both quirky and emblematic; exploring issues...