Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three weeks later (TIME, Jan. 14), the time limit set upon Premier Mussolini's dictatorship expired. The Premier made no comment. Pre-election commentators received a boost and went on writing about the next election. That...
...total vote including all departments of the University was 977 for light wines and beers, 568 for rigid enforcement, and 525 for repeal of the 18th amendment. The strongholds of the wets were the college and the Sheffield Scientific School. Even the Freshmen were overwhelmingly in favor of the pre-Volstead regime...
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...disuse is now largely discredited; of the phenomena of variation and the mechanism of the germ-cell he knew little. But whether or not species originate as Darwin thought they did, this "grandest generalization of the 19th century"?the continuous relation of all species to pre-existent life ?is an incontrovertible fact. Many laymen do not understand the scientific spirit which calls for constant revision of accepted theory in the light of new facts, but the discarding of unverified hypotheses does not argue lack of confidence in the methods of science...
...importations of agricultural products for the first time in history exceeded sales of our agricultural products abroad. During the year ending June 30, 1923, our imports in this class (including forest products) were valued at $2,315,000,000 or $780,000,000 more than in the year pre ceding; while our agricultural exports amounted in 1922-23 to only $1,927,000,000, which was $82,000,000 less than in 1921-22. Thus, whereas in agricultural products we had a "favorable" trade balance of $474,000,000 in 1921-22, in 1922-23 the "unfavorable" balance amounted...