Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal judiciary, after 20 years of New Deal-Fair Deal rule, was made up of 248 Democrats, 59 Republicans (including 46 survivors of pre-Roosevelt days) and one judge without party affiliation. Roosevelt and Truman appointed 242 Democrats to judgeships and only 17 Republicans. Eisenhower will have nine vacancies to fill after...
...immediate task of the committee, chairman Theodore O. Cron 1G said yesterday, "is to set up machinery to counter any unfair attacks that might be made by the Velde investigating committee. We are not pre-judging Velde, but we want to have everything ready in case his group does violate the principles of academic freedom...
Each Monday night the High Table begins with pre-game social drinks in the Junior Common Room, where the House's dinner guests can meet the battery of tutors and undergraduates. At six thirty, either fortified with tomato juice or mellowed with sherry, the whole company files into the House dining hall to eat the regular fare with "a little extra" at the long, raised table at one end of the room...
...please our readers. . .The paper was indispensable because of its notices, but I don't believe it was generally read, except by the editors. . . .But when the occasion demanded we turned out a really creditable sheet. . .Of course, there was more of the right sort of conviviality in those pre-Volstead days than there could be late...
From the Schuberts (who shut off the Crime's free tickets after its critics had roasted several pre-war turkeys) to the Hasty Pudding show (which ran an ad pointedly referring to the good things "professional" critics had said about the show), theatre groups have protested the Crime's high-minded approach. But the Harvard audience remains as discriminating and hard to please as any anywhere, and it requires like-minded critics...