Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snappy bow tie, he was shown out walking with pretty, 23-year-old Dorothy Mortensen, a Jacksonville, Fla. drama student. They will be married, he announced proudly, on June 8, three days after his graduation. A straight-B student, Jimmy Wilson has breezed through the University of Florida pre-law school on his own power. Proud of his ability to handle the leather straps and metal rods which replaced his limbs, he drives an automobile, writes his own exams and takes notes in longhand...
Rumania has devised a more effective way of fighting the Voice: the Communists are trying gradually to do away with radio receiving sets, instead distribute loudspeakers without dials, to which programs are piped from government controls known as "radiofication stations." Rumanians who still have pre-radiofication sets (about 300,000) listen to the Voice, usually in groups, with lookouts against police posted at doors and windows. A Rumanian refugee in Turkey estimates that even seven out of ten Communists listen to the Voice, not, as he carefully explained, "because they are bad Communists, but because they are apprehensive Communists...
Baby-faced Kee Yong Ham came in first (2 hr. 32 min. 39 sec.). With true Korean courtesy, he announced that he was disappointed because Korean Champion Yun, who placed third, was not able to win. Yun, suffering from leg cramps and a pre-race injury, had barely caught John Lafferty of Jersey City with a closing 100-yd. sprint to make the Korean sweep complete...
Crew coach Tom Bolles, ever the pessimist, sang his pre-race blues with greater fervor than usual Thursday. Once again he lamented the damage that foul weather has done to his practice schedule. Princeton, on the other hand, works out in relatively balmy latitudes on an artificial lake, sheltered from winds...
Courses in Milton, Chancer, or Shakespeare (English 131, 115, and 123 respectively) are always good to take in most cases they are necessary to fulfill the Department's demands for three half courses in pre eighteenth century literature. The Department offers excellent writing courses, but students can only count two of these toward concentration...