Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering colleagues besom Fair's plunge into College life as a scientific loss. "Since he became 'Mr. Chips' over at Harvard," one former associate complains, "we never see him at our monthly meetings." But Fair has not given up his pre-Dunster occupation; he hopes to have his fourth book, water and Waste Water, ready for publication shortly and in 1950, Fair was the official U.S. representative a meeting of sanitary engineers in Rome...
...long as the Undergraduate Schools Committee operated on pre-college students who already had Harvard on their minds, it worked easily and well. But, with lackadaisical alumni groups in some areas of the country, the Committee has found itself holding the entire Harvard publicity bag. For this it is badly understaffed. In fact, the exiting Schools Committee chairman has called enlisting capable representatives the Committee's most pressing problem...
Communications were sped up and some hard production problems were licked in 1952. New direct radio-teletype circuits, called Telex, were installed between New York City and London, New York and Paris, and London and Paris. TIME's pre-convention issue, for which the final writing and editing was finished on Monday night, went on sale in Chicago on Tuesday morning, in time for delegates to pick up copies which described what they had done the evening before...
...national production daily setting new records, last week declared a dividend for all citizens: an across-the-board tax cut in 1953-54. In his annual budget message to a cheering House of Commons in Ottawa, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott rolled the country's tax rates back toward pre-Korea levels. Abbott announced...
Kearney said that as far as he know the committee was turough, at least temporarily, with its hearings on the pre-war Red cell. He said he know of no plans to call more witnesses on this phase of the committee's probe. Yesterday, the group met in executive session and was concerned with other matters...