Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange as and possibly stranger than the spectacle of modern football are those occasions known as "big pre-game evenings." These evenings, wondrous tings in themselves and honored as rituals, list for hours and hours; sometimes they last for days. Their commercial possibilities are quickly recognized by hostelries, restaurants, and theatres, and are exploited accordingly. And then buried deep in the tinsel; there is also the game itself. What, however,, is coming to be practically optional. The evenings loom larger...
...pre-game prognostications avail anything, today's match should prove to be a close event, for Amherse defeated both Dartmouth and Harvard by the same score, 3-1. While Dartmouth was playing the Cadets, the University soccer squad has wasted no time, having been well drilled in the fundamentals of the game...
Ushering in the festivities of the Harvard-Dartmouth football game, the annual intercollegiate pre-game dances will be held tonight at the Copley-Plaza and the Statler. After the game, the Copley Plaza will give a dance with the football teams as guests of honor...
...Here are actual data of pre-War and present conditions of the Soviet oil industry: pre-War crude oil production was 9,230,000 metric tons, while production for the Soviet fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1927, was more than 10,000,000 metric tons; pre-War annual consumption of kerosene in villages was 8 pounds per capita, and last year's consumption was 9.4 pounds per capita; pre-War wages of workers in the Baku fields were 35 rubles per month, while during the year just ended the wages averaged over 75 rubles monthly...
...Present production costs in the Grozny oil fields are lower than before the War, while in the Baku fields these costs are about equal to those of 1913. The output of gasoline from crude oil has been increased from the pre-War figure of 0.4% to over 0.7%. Deterding also mentions the Soviet coal industry. It will be interesting to learn that coal production for the year just ended was 39% higher than the figure given by Deterding...