Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political experience is short." said Ike with a quick grin, "but I think most of you would agree it has also been quite intense. I know that underlying every political purpose -every political aspiration and hope - must be work at the pre cinct level. We must reach the individual. We must convey to him - and to America - the ideals by which we live...
...ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure are pre-Grecian. The boots are even odder than the horned helmet they counterpoint. Hittite sculptures sometimes have upturned toes, but never so exaggerated. A few experts guess that the boots are a sort of combination ski and snowshoe, pointing to a mountain origin, yet most of the body is naked to the cold...
What Is It? The audiophile used to live surrounded by a litter of parts and soldering irons and spoke a strange jargon full of "cycles," "decibels," "curves," "roll-offs." Pre-hi-fi sets were unable to top the violin's range (about 8,000 cycles per second) and thus were "unfaithful" to all instruments but bass drum, timpani, bass tuba, piano, French horn and trombone (played softly without mutes). So the hi-fi fan went all out for high frequencies...
...Pre-recorded tape is now being pushed by manufacturers. It is nearly twice as expensive as LPs and less convenient, but, played on medium-fi sets, sounds roughly comparable...
Dean Watson, however, has pointed cut that the inability to obtain specific information on pre-college subsidization is "one of the main weaknesses in the Ivy Code...