Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the second week of the conference, instead of continuing with a pre-arranged program, the members will form advanced study and discussion groups for reviewing significant books, and originating constructive thought concerning methods of promoting peace...
...from study and contemplation of English literature in preparation for various and sundry final examinations. And I think I have accomplished quite a good deal, realizing that my whole future as well as about nine tenths of my past depends upon such a knowledge. Did you know that the Pre-Raphaelites were Pre-Raphaelitic? The significance of the fact is vast--or, and here I quote a gentleman from Dartmouth, what have...
...obvious grounds of dissent at Geneva last week among Germany's onetime enemies, gave Count von Bernstorff an opportunity for polite but insidious irony which he was unable to resist. The Count, whose vivid charm of manner won him much social popularity in Washington before his "undiplomatic"** intrigues as pre-War German Ambassador were discovered, arose at Geneva last week and spoke with a malicious twinkle in his eye: "The delegates should apply to their nations the same rules which they applied in disarming Germany. . . . Talk of 'regional security' would seem slightly out of place in this discussion, though...
...patriots recalled that, as a naval attaché under von Bernstorff, the German pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., Captain Boy-Ed caused such publications as the well poised Outlook to print the following denunciation of his activities: "Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen . . . have been the inspiration if not the agency of the Teutonic plots and conspiracies . . . of all the hideous crimes?arson, dynamiting, murder?committed in this country in a shameless and cowardly attempt to stop our supplies from going to the Allies...
...Karl Muck, pre-War conductor of the Boston Symphony, similarly refused (in 1918) to conduct "The Star Spangled Banner." Ousted, he now conducts for the Berlin State Opera, is considered the greatest living interpreter of Wagnerian scores...