Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Travel. The tea-drenched atmosphere of Russian stations is back to pre-War humidity. Newsstands are well filled. As the bell rings, comfortable dining and sleeping cars are thrown open to travelers, who need not struggle for a place. Through regions once stricken with famine, the traveler speeds past fields luxuriant with a ripening harvest. At the great Kursk Station in Moscow he finds piles of perishable foodstuffs, which are being rushed to customers able to pay for them, from a distance of 1000 miles or more...
...President of the Textile Syndicate, Tovarish Kilewicz, is a square-jawed bullet-headed onetime workman. As might many another self-made man, he admits that his subordinates have a monopoly of whatever technical training there is in the establishment. On the basis of their technical training, many pre-revolution bourgeosie, or even nobles, receive good salaries*-if they are adaptable and pliant to the Soviet...
...species, of course, may be different at Union College; but elsewhere it is a pretty safe guess that the average run of legs and heads function as well as in the pre-Colgate era. If the two extremities of a student's anatomy be made the subject of presidential lecturing, the obvious criticism is not that students are being reduced to torsos, but that they run the danger of becoming either all heads or all legs...
...With pre-season conditioning and the inevitable rudimentary routine of the first fortnight behind it, the University football squad will enter today the final week of preparation for the first game of the year, scheduled for next Saturday with Renssaelaer Polytechnic Institute. The squad is in good condition physically, a tribute to Coach E. L. Farrell, who has assumed this year for the first time, the duties of trainer for the football men. The only injuries of any consequence are a leg injury which will keep J. J. Maher '26 on the sidelines for three weeks, and a sprained ankle...
...last week, when Sir Edmund was being congratulated and interviewed upon his golden wedding anniversary. An Oxonian newspaper reporter had shown ignorance of those same Pre-Raphaelites and of how he, Edmund Gosse, son of a penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema...