Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of agriculture since July of this year. Said he: "Advance has been particularly conspicuous in the case of cotton as a result of a much reduced crop. As the prices of other commodities had meantime declined somewhat, the relative position of farm products has materially improved. On a pre-war basis the index for them now stands quite as high as the average for nonagricultural articles." Textile manufacture has also improved...
...Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd is good to look upon and seems slightly more than beautiful. Additional fact of striking import,--she hails from Lawrence, Mass! The John Murray Anderson show heads...
...which gives no courses in anthropology to study the subject in about the fashion that an undergraduate here does. The gap between high school and college methods of instruction and of subject matter will be in a measure bridged by the preparation of another anthropological film especially adapted for pre-collegiate...
...matter what is said on such occasions as these, when a game has been won, lost or tied, the reader is perfectly logical in his own pre-conceived opinion that (a) it has been said before, (b) it has been said better and (c) it need never have been said at all. Such prejudices, coupled with the fact that no one has ever yet succeeded in finishing an editorial during the exodus from Soldiers Field, would seem to make all comments, including this one, unnecessary. Nevertheless even extras have editorial columns so the only proper course of action...
...hardy if benighted-souls who either have no taste for pre-game convivialities in the forenoon or who suffer from some other similarly grieyous affliction, the Vagabond will at least make a list which they might attend with benefit and pleasure this morning...