Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third on the agenda are considerations to grant University course credits for certain advanced secondary school work or language abilities. Under such a program, for example, pre-credit might be given for elementary language courses...
Here is Cambridge, 4,355 undergraduates are bravely filling out myriad forms, secure only in their knowledge of one dismal fact; next year at this time, pre-supposing that spring will come, they will be able to hire out as experienced biddies. Recruiting sergeants in the Central Square booths predict a 50 percent rise in enlistments as many of the 4,355 lose their last remaining reason for remaining here after the winter examinations...
...more expensive than it was in 1950, just before the Korean war. Manpower will be double the 1950 level, expenditures nearly three times as much. Although both the Army and Navy will be cut from their present strength, their funds and manpower will still be approximately double the immediate pre-Korea level. Said Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson as he defended his budget in a press conference: The budget represents good military planning, and it should...
...romantics among the historians not only overestimated the happy state of pre-industrial man, but also the misery of the industrial city. Actually, says Ashton, the industrial epoch brought a substantial increase in wages, and if the workers were jammed together in rickety "jerry-built" houses, it was not the fault of the capitalists. "The typical builder was a man of small means, a bricklayer or a carpenter . . . The jerry-builders were not capitalists but workingmen...
...England past. One of her books (Paul Revere and The World He Lived In) took the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in history; another (The Running of the Tide) won the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $150,000 novel contest. Regional devotion comes naturally to Esther Forbes, daughter of a pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts clan, one of whose 17th-century members died in jail while awaiting trial for witchcraft. There is little witchcraft, unfortunately, in Author Forbes's latest novel, Rainbow on the Road, and the plot is frugal even by Yankee standards. A solid fog of research muffles her characters, but whenever...