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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little by little, history was beginning to reveal some fuller explanations about the NLRB's doings in the critical pre-World War II period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Mr. Smith Went to Washington | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (TIME, April 16, 1951)? The bones said to be Fawcett's were later proved to be those of another man. Then could Fawcett possibly have reached the mysterious lost city of "Z," the mother remnant of the pre-Andean civilization, which he was certain still stood in the darkest midmost of Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fawcett of the Mato Grosso | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...recommended that the University assign some office the task of assembling similar statistics for all courses, to dispel the myth that a pre-med student must concentrate entirely on his studies, at the expense of other interests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fieser Poll Shows Students Stress Marks Too Much | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Depth versus desperation seems to be the pre-game story of the lacrosse team's contest with Yale today...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Nine, Ten, Golfers Face Yale Today | 5/15/1953 | See Source »

...pursuit of happiness as an inalienable right of mankind is an idea almost unrecognized in the development of other nations, but powerful in all aspects of American life. Happiness as a right first appeared in the pre-revolutionary Virginia Resolves, gained its most popular form in the Declaration of Independence, was cut out of the Constitution, but has bobbed up ever since as something to which all American felt they were entitled, but which none were able to define in the same terms...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam., | Title: A Nation In Search of Happiness | 5/1/1953 | See Source »

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