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Word: pre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pre-vote statement refuting portions of a letter published in yesterday's CRIMSON was distributed to Annex students by the Radcliffe News last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Protests Note | 4/22/1952 | See Source »

Oceanwise, acording to Petterson, the Earth may be following the evolutionary pattern of Mars and Venus. Venus is still in a pre-oceanic stage, while Mark is a desert plant. "Our present oceanic splendor," he said, "may be a transient stage and the Earth may be on its way towards a complete dessication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shrinking Oceans May Reveal Lost Submarine Lands | 4/22/1952 | See Source »

Republican and Democrat pre-convention hopefuls will face two successive tests next week. On Monday, they will battle it out in the H.L.U's University-wide poll; Tuesday sees the official state primaries for both parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Seeks Student Choices For Presidential Candidates | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...Modern psychology," Salter goes on, "has shown Freud's map of the mind to be as inaccurate and wildly fanciful as the pre-Columbian maps of the New World." And with approval he quotes Sociologist Pitirim Sorokin: "What is sound in Freudianism is very old; what is new, very doubtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mental Pay Dirt | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Otto Dix is a German painter. He likes to growl, "I'm not so tender." And in pre-Hitler Germany he showed what he meant: cynical portraits of German prostitutes and socialites, gruesome oils and etchings of World War I. The Nazis didn't like the Dix kind of thing at all; they considered his powerful paintings deliberately calculated to spread despondency and alarm. They labeled him an "artistic degenerate," kicked him out of his art professorship at the University of Dresden, and destroyed all the Dix pictures they could lay hands on. Dix retreated to a German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: After Two Wars | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

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