Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week were signs: "Die BZ ist wieder da [BZ is back again]." BZ is the House of Ullstein's tabloid Berliner Zeitung, once one of the biggest papers in Berlin with a circulation of 510,000, specializing in sports, features, entertainments and easy-to-read news. In pre-Hitler Germany, when the House of Ullstein was the largest publisher on the continent, BZ was confiscated by Hitler, along with the Ullsteins' four other dailies, five weeklies and six magazines. Last year they got some of their property back (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952), and under Karl H. Ullstein...
Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...
14th Century Rome (Bettina Colonna, by Michel Durafour; Bobbs-Merrill). A souped-up account of the meteoric political rise and fall of Cola di Rienzo (fact), and how lovely, ruthless Bettina won and lost him (fiction), enlivened by pre-Renaissance skulduggery and dalliance...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 20--Probably the most confident underdog in recent years, the Harvard varsity football team, with a chance to tic for its first Big Three title in 13 years, went through a brisk pre-Yale workout in the Yale Bowl here today...
Before Read left Leeds to enter the service he met Robert Orage, editor of New Age, the most influential of the pre-war avant-garde literary periodicals. Orage introduced him to Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and T. E. Hulme, men who were to become guide posts in his synthesis of a literary style and criteria for criticism. Orage was active in the Social Credit movement, advocating a free-money economic system, and he converted the young man to his views. Social credit was not far enough; after the disillusionment of the war, it was easy for Read to make...