Word: pre
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...recognize and examine its own academic characteristics without admitting that there are other valid ones. This easily leads to the condescension which is typical of Harvard's attitude toward other colleges, and the belief that there are no other legitimate types of intellectual investigation than those used here. Academic pre-eminence is interpreted not necessarily as knowing it all, but at least as possessing the best, perhaps the only methods to find...
...study of the history and literature of the U.S.S.R.," he said, "are the special libraries of the universities. In particular the enormous Russian department of Harvard University Library numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets of all Russian pre-revolutionary journals, complete collections of works of Russian historians, complete works of Russian writers" as well as "literature and periodicals after the revolutionary period." He also noted that American libraries also received emigre periodicals, usually anti-soviet...
...through a three-inch stack of House pay records for January, he broke the news that Iowa's freshman Democratic Representative Steven V. Carter was paying his 19-year-old son $11,873.26 a year as his public-relations assistant, although the lad was also a part-time pre-law student at George Washington University (TIME, March 2). When House leaders brushed off his stories ("They kept telling me everyone runs his own business"), Trimble spent a weekend in Iowa gathering outraged reactions to Carter's paternal solicitude. Iowa's Carter subsequently trimmed...
Such a broad and bright market led many an investor to play the old stubby pencil game of "How much would I have now if . . ." If he had bought 100 shares of some stocks, even at the 1929 pre-crash highs, he would now have a pile. Examples, counting stock splits and dividends, but not counting cash dividends and rights, of how each share multiplied: Stock '29 High (One Share) Last Week Number of Shares Now $ Total Value
...Masters decided at a recent meeting that "the pre-war system of providing some rooms in the Houses for graduate students is a good one," according to David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House. When the Leverett Towers open in September, 1960, the Houses will have "at least 150 new places, perhaps more," Owen said...