Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order that the rent burden will not be too severe for students, there will be no more deconversion to pre-war occupancy standards...
State government is "closer to the people, more responsible to the people, and more controlled by the people" than the federal, challenged Perkins Bass, LL.B. '38 and member of the New Hampshire legislature. Though unfortunately the federal government "has pre-empted many state service," state politics offers interesting experience and satisfaction. The virgin attitude against "dirty polities" is precisely what produces "incompetent, inefficient public officials...
...skates, quite likely the result of weariness from two previous games that week. Only defenseman Dusty Burke, who checked viciously, and center Walt Greeley, who tallied the Crimson's lone goal with a half-minute remaining in the game, showed the scrap which had characterized the team in pre-exam games. The final score (5 to 1) was not indicative of the relative strength of the two teams and the Crimson should fare much better in the return match at the Arena later this month...
...part of one of the most superb School-of-Paris collections ever made, the 1,000-item, $2,000,000 life-work of Walter Arensberg, 72, rich California scholar, and his wife Louise. Their collection, which fills their servantless Los Angeles house from floor to ceiling (and which includes pre-Columbian sculpture), will move to Philadelphia as soon as the museum readies 19 new rooms...
...biggest gripe from businessmen came from those who had gone along with the Government's voluntary rollback in December, then found themselves frozen at lower levels than their competitors. Price Boss Mike DiSalle hoped to fix that too by a new kind of price freeze based on pre-Korea profit margins rather than specific prices. This would permit businessmen to raise prices to meet rising costs. At week's end, it looked as if the "freeze" would not keep wages & prices from going up, but merely slow the rise...