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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould expressed the opinion that the Commonwealth had pre-empted the right to control the machines, so that it would be futile for the city to pass legislation against them. But DeGuglielmo's proposed order only advises the Cambridge Licensing Commission that the Council feels the machines should be banned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council May Prohibit Pinball Play | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

...Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Meyner, John Kennedy, Stuart Symington and Pat Brown-and all autographed the same copy. Carter also has signed covers from Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Among others in his autographed collection: Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey (both on the same 1948 pre-Election Day issue), John Foster Dulles, Chiang Kaishek, Toscanini, Nehru, the Duke of Windsor and the Morocco Riff leader, Abd el Krim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Eventually, the change in comedy styles brought the curtain raiser down. Columbia refused to renew when The Three Stooges' contract ended on Jan. 1, 1958, has since sold its pre-1948 backlog of their films to television. The trio considered breaking up the act-until TV, that supposed wrecker of old-style comedians, turned out to be their salvation. The kiddy population roared at the antique routines. By last week the reruns were running ahead of such competition as Popeye and Mickey Mouse among the romper set, and the rejuvenated Three Stooges were swinging cross-country in a highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Refinished Antiques | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...that Williams and second baseman Jim Dwinell have begun to hit the ball hard, the Yardlings have answered a pre-season question about whether they could hit. Samborski will know this weekend whether they can keep...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Hard-Hitting Freshman Nine Faces UNH, Brown in Week-end Contests | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

PARIS, April 30--Four Western foreign ministers, winding up their pre-Geneva meeting in unexpectedly quick time, proclaimed full agreement today on a plan to break down cold war tensions in Europe...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: President of Panama Orders Out Troops Against Cuban Invaders; West Agrees on Geneva Tactics | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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