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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pre-season forecast can be trusted, Harvard hockey fortunes in 1952-53 will definitely take a big rise. Weiland, hopeful before last season when the team turned in a mediocre performance, has far greater expectations for this year's aggregation. He is backed up by rival coaches...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/9/1952 | See Source »

...after job in the upper echelons of the new Administration was filled at record speed, one name was beginning to become more & more conspicuous by its absence. What did Dwight Eisenhower have in mind for Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., his pre-convention campaign manager who was defeated for re-election to the Senate on Nov. 4? Last week Ike answered the question. He picked Lodge to succeed Vermont's ailing Warren Austin as head of the U.S. mission to the U.N., with the rank of ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Ambassadors | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lucky Billo | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...varsity had finished its last pre-Newport scrimmage, and Shepard was relaxing in the I.A.B., watching the freshmen scrimmage. "The object of the rule," he said, "like all the others in the last couple of years, is to cut down the fouling...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/6/1952 | See Source »

Finally, a pre-trial hearing on accident disputes would not only clear up the present court glut but also let a judge, instead of a chronically munificent jury, award damages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commonwealth Cowboys | 12/2/1952 | See Source »

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