Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole thing, explained a railways official later on, was undoubtedly the fault of a literal-minded desk clerk. Back in pre-nationalization days, he said, the hotel had a ruling forbidding women to barge in off the streets for baths. Miss Ward's case, he thought, might fairly be called "an isolated incident [but] the one thing we were sure about all along was that she would get her bath, come what...
...George and Mr. John thought them mere Depression pan-flashes. Not until their own sales tumbled did they realize that supermarkets were putting their own "combination" stores out of business. But if the Hartfords started late, they moved fast, started opening supermarkets right & left, and added such wrinkles as pre-packaged meats & produce, weighed and pricetagged. They expanded by contracting. Each new supermarket closed some six of the old-type A & Ps so that the number of stores dwindled from 1930's peak of 15,737 to today's 4,682. Yet they built so much more volume...
...right side of the Crimson line again provided the main scoring punch. Regular right wing Ben Goldstein stepped on a ball in Friday's pre-game warm-up and sprained his ankle...
...weekend festival got off to a bad start Friday night with a pre-game rally at which Tiger athletic leaders hurt the feelings of Crimson visitors by making ungentlemanly remarks about the team...
...evaluating his team's pre-season chances, Princeton football coach Charlie Caldwell quaintly remarked that if the 1950 Tigers equaled their six victories of the previous year he would be "the happiest coach in the profession." Last week, Princeton blasted Colgate 45 to 7 for its sixth straight win, and if tomorrow's game with Harvard at Palmer Stadium goes as most forecasters expect it will, Caldwall should be beside himself with joy at nightfall...