Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twins pointed out that there have been three distinct differences in the last three generations in Germany. "The first group, composed of our fathers, had was the pre-war type of German. Then came the 'father-murderers' of the next generation who were the most revolutionary type. The world war broke into the most formative part of their lives; it stirred them up and made them more aggressive. It was they who created the revolution and invented expressionism...
...Nicaragua? ". . . We can make no advance . . . until human affairs are brought within the orderly rule of law. The surest refuge of the weak and the oppressed is in the law. It is pre-eminently the shield of small nations...
...Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold." To that insistence he added: "In asking that the name of your great scientist be connected with this research I am mindful not only of his pre-eminent position and services in science, but more particularly of his outstanding reputation as the man who, perhaps more than any other living scientist today, exemplifies the beneficial application of the science of chemistry to medical problems, which is my abiding interest in such researches as this...
Donald Fay Robinson, young Harvard poet, presents a short collection of extravagant naivetes with, now and then, a youthful trumpet ful of sophistication. The book contains about forty poems dating from 1914 and the pre-college days of the poet. Among them can be seen the fragile pattern of a young man's philosophy...
...morbid undergraduate has any curious desire to examine the mummies of eight members of the oldest, least known Indians of pre-historic times, he may do so at leisure in the Peabody Museum where the venerable perserved corpses of antiquity are recovering from the ordeal of a strenuous autopsy to which they were subjected recently by Dr. G. E. Wilson, histology instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Rather, six of the bodies has their privacy imposed upon, results of which permit an expose of the private life of Arizona's Basket Maker Indians...