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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yvette Guilbert (Angel LP). Paris' grand old (1865-1944) Chanteuse Guilbert rasps a few of her naughty ditties in pre-LP French. Titles: Le Fiacre, Partie Carrée, L'Eloge des Vieux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Nathaniel Patterson, 22, an unemployed Negro laborer just out of the Army, was dejectedly waiting for a bus after having been turned down for his pre-service industrial job. Up drove a two-tone green Buick, he says, and a man about 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing about 160 Ibs., between 45 and 55, got out and asked him if he wanted a lift. Patterson said he was waiting for a bus. "Well," said the phantom, "do you believe in God?" "Of course I do," answered Patterson. This time it was a roll of five $50 bills. "Take this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Phantom Giveaway | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Daniel H. Funkenstein, clinical associate in Psychiatry, told the CRIMSON that notions that pre-medical students "should make A's in all of his subjects, major in science, and make a 99 percent score on the Medical College Admission Test," are only "myths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many Err in Med Schools' Requirements | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

...days when private tutoring schools had perfected the art of outwitting examiners, the University's security problems were considerably more complicated. These tutoring programs--widespread until 1940--specialized in pre-digesting a variety of possible questions, and professors soon grew accustomed to reading blue-book after blue-book with the same questions answered in the same way. Finally faculty members began to take the law into their own hands and one professor emerged from his examination room and announced with satisfaction that his test had "wreaked havoc among cram parlor habituees...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Evading Education | 2/4/1955 | See Source »

...report to the Council, Reynolds said crowding in College dorms makes it difficult for many people to study during exams, that the House libraries are insufficient to provide for the large pre-exam rush, and that Lamont provides necessary course material be a much greater extent than the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Probably to Retain Exam Hours | 2/4/1955 | See Source »

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