Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asserted on only two points: that the men who survive today's trials may confidently be expected to provide the spectator in the Stadium tomorrow with a veritable battle of the giants, and that their ranks will include many names which figured but slightly on the dope sheets for pre-meet speculation...
...academic year 1928-1929 will see the College of Arts and Sciences of Cornell University adopt a pre-examination discontinuance of formal class attendance which is patterned upon the Harvard Reading Period. The arrangement at Cornell is variously modified to make the offspring more conservative than the parent. Their hereditary similarities appear in the resolution of the Cornell faculty...
...monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected blood. The monkey died twelve days later from a severe case of yellow fever. Fifty more monkeys were inoculated and succumbed. Finally serum from the blood of Patient Noguchi, recovering from the yellow fever, was administered and the protective antibodies pre vented animals from contracting yellow fever from a subsequent injection of the germ...
Raphael is pre-eminently the painter of Madonnas. Before his time the vogue for this form of religious representation flourished, after him other painters carried it on. But Raphael Sanzio, who died on Good Friday when he was exactly 37 years old, more than for his frescoes and his figure paintings from mythology, his portraits and historical panoramas, is remembered for being the man who made the best pictures of the Virgin Mary and her son. His portraits of her cool and smiling face have been more often copied than any other painter's; notably the Madonna...
DEAD LOVERS ARE FAITHFUL LOVERS- Frances Newman-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Curiously enough this book is not tedious. The first half concerns itself with the gold negligees, white ribbons, and creamy laces a pre-war Southern bride arranges for the retention of her husband's physical affections; the second half with the green hats, coral gowns, and visceral sensations of the girl who, ten years later, falls heir to those affections. Not that he, a chivalrous Southern gentleman, would involve her in an illicit relation, but as soon as his established reputation as rail-road president permits of a divorce...