Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.M.A. convention is officially not open to the public, but doctors last night reported that interested outsiders like pre-medical students, if they know someone inside or stay around long enough, can probably get into some of the events...
Needed: New Adjectives. In the same setting, next day, Stevenson met reporters to answer questions. First, Stevenson announced that he had appointed Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth James Finnegan, a seasoned Philadelphia political veteran, as his pre-convention campaign manager. Finnegan's chief assistant would be Chicago Attorney Hyman B. Raskin, a former deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Acting as advisers would be former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and onetime (1946) National Housing Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt, who were the key managers in Stevenson's 1952 campaign. When a reporter commented that this...
...most buoyant lives in the history of English letters. When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled. The family into which he was born was a platoon of all the talents. His kin include Burne-Jones (uncle), the pre-Raphaelite painter, Angela Thirkell (second cousin), the sad librettist of middle-class soap operas, a president of the Royal Academy and a dull cousin named Stan Baldwin who became Prime Minister...
...Pre-game activity among the fans at both contests is much the same. The stadium fills long before game time. Many fans bring large quantities of blankets, warm clothes, and warming liquids. But the roars that follow the first appearance of the Middy and Cadet squads are much louder and more fervent than those produced by the first view of the Crimson and Eli elevens...
...cities, came out with only 48. In 1951 Democrats held 54 city halls before election day and only 32 afterward. Last week Indiana voters jumped on the ins harder than ever, gave the Democrats control of 72 cities, leaving the Republicans with only 30, and completely reversing the pre-election balance...