Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in New Haven Coach Skullen Bones' men were tapping each other on the back and going to their rooms, or to anybody else's room where there was enough ice. A pre-war hush pervaded their training camp: you could have heard a bottle drop...
...Union dance tonight, starting at 10 o'clock and continuing until 3 o'clock, is expected, according to Union officials to be one of the most successful pre-game dances ever held...
...Bainbridge, Ohio, state archeologists opened the great Seip Mound and discovered four evidently royal cadavers of the pre-Indian Mound Builders, lying among quarts and quarts of fresh-water pearls and many polished and carved stone pipes (TIME, Sept. 21). Absence of weapons reaffirmed the belief that the Mound Builders cultivated chiefly the arts of peace. A copper nose on one corpse, patterned cloths under the bones, demonstrated two of these arts...
...There the average tide-rise is 56 feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths, shell-backed glyptodons, macrauchenia (camels, snouted like tapirs), toxodons (tusked hippos) and a bird-like flesh-eater called phororhacos...
Undoubtedly the recalcitrant veterans are sincere in the patriotism of their action. Their conception of patriotism, however, shows that a certain part of our population has not advanced beyond that feverish pre-war stage when national consciousness ran to feelings of smug superiority; and Mars and Machievelli reigned supreme in international relations...