Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Provost Buck noted the completely changed and changing character of admissions policies, and realized that Harvard faced a possible loss of its pre-war balance. In his 1946-47 articles in the Alumni Bulletin, he warned that too many applications were "running to type" and he claimed that...
...pre-war years Conant was noted as much for his anti-Communism as his anti-Nazlism. The latter was then more fashionable issue, however, and thus Co- nant's rejection of a scholarship offer from Nazi publicity man "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09 caused a national uproar. Conant ignored it and proceeded to send a representative to ceremonies held at Heidelburg University. Accused of inconsistency, Conant pointed out the difference: Hafstaengl represented a party "which had struck at the principles we believe to be fundamental to universities throughout the world," while Heidelburg represented what had been attacked by this party...
Winter sports came to an end and the sophomores had been well-pre resented. The changing hockey lineup saw Edward Bailey. William Ellison, Hamlet, and Zarakov starting at one time or anther. The four win, two loss record was climaxed by the February Yale playoff. In finally won I to 0 after 87 minutes of play. For the first time since 1922 the basketball team, paced by sophomore John Leekley, won over Yale (34 to 25) and ended with a 12 win, two loss season...
...used to be simply Gheorghe Gheorghiu until he spent so much time in Rumania's Dej prison in pre-Red days that he tacked Dej on to his name, a Balkan equivalent of calling oneself Alphonse Capone-Alcatraz or Lucky Luciano-Sing Sing...
Author Purdy is a romantic, but all over the U.S. there is still a scattering of men whose hearts leap up when they be hold a pre-World War I car, its brass shined to a dazzle, its head lamps staring proudly ahead, its exhaust pipes exposed for all admiring eyes to see. There are even some, as delicately geared as Author Purdy, who can close their eyes and "imagine a string-straight, poplar-lined Route Nationale in France on a summer's day. That growing dot in the middle dis tance is a sky-blue Bugatti coupe, rasping...