Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter, an English cleric, lives among the unrealities of pre-war England. Formal religious duties fill his working hours, and unreal religious conceptions his thoughts. There is a fiancee as unreal as all the rest. Conventional thoughts and aspirations and sentiments combine in her to make a personality that is a mere summation of unrealities. But all these things are real to Peter in "Simon Called Peter" by Robert Keable. The surface of the man leads its tranquil surface existence...
...manufactured goods. This is obviously proven by the fact that the wholesale farm products are below the prices of 1918, while the average of all commodities is about 50 per cent above the level of that period, and the prices of many of these manufactured articles are double the pre-war prices. This drop in agricultural products is due to the general collapse of business and to the unusually large crops in 1920. But this situation is not serious, as a great deal of this stock has been exported and now the surplus has been nearly liquidated, so there...
...editorial of Thursday last entitled "Pre-Yale Games" was written with the purpose of arousing frank discussion. It did. It was generally construed to advocate substituting for pre-Yale games intramural contests. Our opinion is still that this would be an ideal situation. For the present, however, to make such a radical change is impossible. But at the same time it is painfully obvious that the condition which prevails today in football is harmful to the college both from the educational and the athletic point of view, because of the tendency to make football games public spectacles, means of advertising...
...final pre-game work-out at the Arena yesterday afternoon consisted mainly of a general polishing, an unusually short scrimmage being held. In the preliminary practice special emphasis was laid on shooting. Coach Claflin had his players sending the puck into the cage from every possible angle. He also drilled the Crimson men in receiving short, snappy passes from the side of the rink a few feet in front, of the net and snapping the puck in on the wing...
...other words, whatever pre-Yale games we have they will be at home...