Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gravitation. A regular Garroway feature is his "girl multiplier," that once put 64 identical shots of pert Singer Bette Chapel on the TV screen at one time. Most of the stunts owe their success to a pair of studio carpenters named Weeland Risser and Ralph Doremus,who,in their pre-TV days, happened to work for Magicians Thurston and Blackstone...
Demonstrations will accompany Jeanne D. Chinn's reading of here thesis on Taste Perception, for the Anthropology Department. Other readings will include Judith S. Illsley's study of New England Religion (History), Carol Ress's study of Pre-School Children (Social Relations), and Carol M. Smith's study of Oscar Wilde (English...
Bolle obtained all of the selections in manuscript from, which means that Sunday's performance was a rare one. The major recording companies, as well as most professional artists, shy away from pre-Bachian music because of its dubious commercial value. Small organizations like the Harvard-Radcliffe group can gratify music lovers and students alike by continuing to wander off the beaten track. --lower case
...week of pre-invasion bombing of nearby Seine docks, bridges and warehouses by waves of Allied aircraft tore away rows of buttresses, flattened the whole southern side of the nave. Incendiaries set the tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...
...first east-west swing got under way, the experts were not talking quite so confidently as they had a month ago. But most were still sticking to their pre-season predictions: in the American League, Boston, New York or Cleveland (in that order); in the National League, the Dodgers, with a close fight for second place between the Phils, Braves and Giants...