Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempting to improve the national moral condition--it is difficult to see how such a series of questions as those asked by the Church Advertising Association can be of much practical aid. The first "Do you believe in God"--is typical of the manner in which the questions are pre-pounded. Whether or not the reader does believe in God is a matter after all which chiefly concerns himself and one which he probably would feel rather reticent to broadcast through the column of the public press. The fact that all answers are to be unsigned makes little difference...
...Dramatic Club will stage the first performance of its play, "The Orange Comedy" by Gilbert Seldes '14 this evening in Brattle Hall. The following pre-review of the production was written especially for the Crimson by Mr. Seldes...
...whole scheme of life in America is based on the presupposition that the young American can be educated. We have supposed that America is to be the home of educated persons, and we have devised a scheme of government and devised a scheme of life based on that pre-supposition, that young Americans can be liberally educated and that for that purpose the college primarily exists. I think then, really, the task which faces the American college is to answer that question. In one form or another, all colleges are facing this question, and rather desperately. Can the colleges...
...failed to diagnose correctly in advance the psychological reactions of the people to Prohibition legislation. We did not foresee the lessened respect for law which actually developed. We never anticipated the enormous increase which took place in the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, even as compared with pre-Prohibition days, by way of moonshine, home brew and smuggled whiskey, and the corresponding decrease in the demand for soft drinks...
...point of volume, nor in margin of profit, could the new products at first come up to the old, and borrowing was essential." Four-years ago Anheuser-Busch was breaking even. That was remarkable after the complete break-up of the business. This year profits, although not of the pre-Prohibition magnitude, are high. In ten years August A. Busch expects them to be Kolossal. He then will sail to his castle on the Rhine, to hunt the wild boar in peace of soul...