Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tickets read only to Cologne, and we changed trains here and arranged for a sleeper from Dusseldorf. The station was dirtier than in pre-war times, and the train was late enough to make us feel at home. Service was good, and an English-speaking porter who helped us to start our three trunks of paper samples through in bond, tried to return half the well earned tip that we gave him. The first-class car that we entered here was clean, and newly and attractively upholstered, both seat-coverings and curtains being of paper fabric, as in nearly...
...three years, which will be one of the worst this country has ever experienced. There will be a disastrous panic, during which a large number of business houses which are now firmly situated will go under. Not until the end of this period will business be back to its pre-was basis...
Although Harvard's football system calls for only a three-week's practice in the spring, Yale has already been at work since the first week in February, while Princeton started its pre-season gridiron practice three weeks...
...most hopeful of the return toward pre-war "normalcy" is the collapse of the long-threatened British general strike. Organized labor, headed curiously enough by the miners, has now definitely repudiated the idea, to the great relief of the harrassed public. The reason seems to be not so much dissension in the ranks of Labor as a growing conviction that the ballot is after all the best means of gaining desired ends. The English mind is by nature and inheritance inclined to the use of constitutional means; English Parliamentary methods are well adapted for expressing the will of the people...
...backed by the majority of the people, will bring these ideas to execution. Only in such a way can one work against the teachings of those who doubt in the wisdom of the present system. When one considers the short-sighted decisions of the various conferences, their pre-decided foolish actions, then can clearly be seen, where the Bolshevistic school finds its strength. One can not fight Bolshevism with treaties with Russia, forbidding pro-Bolshivik propaganda, but only by bettering the world's condition through a policy of cooperation...