Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose business he succeeded. He has been president of the O'Leary company since his father's death. Last week he became president also of Chicago Trust Co. In 1916, while president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, he organized, within 48 hours, the largest of the nation's pre-War preparedness parades. In 1925-26 he was president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; in 1928. vice treasurer of the Republican National Committee...
...budget stated that the American Museum's endowment was some $13,000.000. But because the dollar's present purchasing value is little more than half its pre-War value (when most of the endowments were set up), the Museum lacked enough money to pay for its multifold activities. This year's deficit is $106.,00. To make it up President Osborn asked the trustees to contribute their own cash, as they had done for previous deficiencies...
...President-Elect planned to remain in Washington for about a week, then to depart for Florida and a final pre-inaugural vacation. He has engaged a suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and will hold conferences at his home and at the hotel. One of the first S Street visitors was Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan. . . . When President-Elect Hoover becomes President Hoover on March 4 his age will be 54 years, seven months. He will be three months older than the average of all Presidents at the time of their inaugurations...
...supreme experiences, even more thrilling than kicking a goal from the field in the stadium. Psychopathology, because it is a new subject, and because it deals with the spirit of man in all its vigorous vagaries, progressive and regressive, and hence is the subject par excellence for the pre-occupation of man, has the necessary explosives for lighting the intellectual fuse in the minds of at least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does not make a great deal of difference what subject infects him first; he should be infected. He may then proceed...
Primeval microbes found alive in Pre-Cambrian rocks...