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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant fossils were taken from a deposit of flint rock in the gunflint formation near Schreiber. Out The two researchers identified their find as "the oldest structurally preserved organisms which have been discovered in pre-Cambrian sediments." They are "of great theoretical interest in the evolutionary scheme of primitive life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Discover Oldest Plant Fossils at Northern Lake Superior | 2/17/1954 | See Source »

...pre-season forecast, which rated the varsity basketball team seventh in the E.I.B.L., has looked as good as the squad has looked bad in the past week. As a matter of fact, the Crimson will drop to seventh if it fails to beat Dartmouth in Hanover at 9 p.m. tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Will Face Dartmouth Today | 2/17/1954 | See Source »

...Pre-game dope tabbed 6-8 center Paul Wisdom as Dartmouth's chief threat, so Crimson coach Norm Shepard covered him with Dick Manning, probably the varsity's top defensive "big" man. But the visitors employed a double-pivot--with Fairley as Wisdom's partner...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Green Stops Varsity, 68-59, As Fairley Controls Boards | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...number of campaigns were fought over in Europe, the President observed, and he didn't recall once issuing a pre-campaign statement that his forces were big and strong and mighty and tough and were going to beat somebody's brains out. By the same token, the Administration is just going about its business like Americans ought to, he hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Speak Softly | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...self-respect goes down, and in the end he drops the rich practice and the rich girl (Lizabeth Scott) who goes with it, heads back to the mining town-or is it the sexy nurse (Dianne Foster)?-that really needs him. Dr. Heston treats his patients with a pre-med manner of such overbearing superiority that he makes the saving of a man's life seem a kind of insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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