Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Yankee fans were coping this week with a brand-new vernacular. In a pre-game TV interview with Manager Casey Stengel, big, ham-handed Dizzy Dean boomed: "You ain't a-woofin' about that, brother!" The fans also noted, for future reference, that the Arkansas-born announcer conjugates the verb to swing as swing, swanged, swunged...
During the war, the College made room rents proportional to the length of time a student lived in a room, but went back to the pre-war contract system last year. This system contains the paradox that ex-students have to pay full rent but are not allowed to live in their College rooms for the balance of the year...
...just before a whisper ran down Beacon Street. "Clarence, it's Clarence. Is it Clarence?" Clarence DcMar was coming. The crowd held together for just a few more minutes while the old man puffed by, tired, but smiling. For DcMar the applause was possessive. He turned into the pre-dusk cocktails-and-dinner hour of Commonwealth Avenue, and disappeared between two taxicabs. Behind him, Fred Murphy, a very young man from Dorchester, dragged himself up the next to last hill of the race, the trestle just west of the Square, paused on the crest, and slowly sank toward the ground...
...Allow Pan American Airways and Panagra to transfer a backlog of profits earned before October's devaluation of the peso into dollars at pre-devaluation rates...
Groups that signed the petition were: 314, Debate Council, Verein Turmwachter, Photo Society, CRIMSON, Free Enterprise Society, World Federalists, Radio Network, Pre-Medical Society, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Chemical Society, Ivy Films, Liberal Union, Advocate, and Appleton Club...