Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their names had been checked off. One of the ladies came up and asked what they were going to do with all the coffee they had left over. "All of Mr. Sage's doughnuts are gone, but we still have 15 gallons of coffee left." The Waldorf, which, by pre-disaster arrangement, had donated the coffee, could not take it back because it had sugar and cream in it. A member of the Shelter Committee suggested that they take it to the City Infirmary, but the lady-in-charge said that it was too late for those old people there...
Hicks House, one of 21 pre-Revolutionary houses still standing in Cambridge, has had an unsettled existence, marked by 15 different layers of wallpaper. After Hicks' widow sold the white house on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets, it had four other owners before the University bought it in 1903. It then rested for a quarter of a century, housing at one time a group of Cowley fathers who lived an ascetic life and demanded nothing but a roof over their heads. But 64 Dunster Street stood in the way of the projected Indoor Athletic Building, so in December...
...first meeting with Columbia the Crimson got off to a fast start and was still with the Lions, 30 to 30, at the half. But the team, which was then in the middle of its pre-Yale game slump, ran out of speed in the second half, crumbling before Coach Gordon Ridings' fast break...
General Eichelberger is back at the old pitch, selling us a friendly, westernized, peace-loving Japan-a country of "know-how men." His spiel is no better than the pre-war brand. Aside from his neat logical fallacy in trying to destroy "war potential" and at the same time wanting to build up an army, he has ignored several other problems. One is the group of Japanese industrialists who saw the last war as a fine chance to pick up some markets and raw material sources. They are still in business. Another is the very reasonable doubt that five years...
Doctor Ellen Dorrit Roffleit, Astronomer in the Harvard College Observatory, has found a star that may be the pre-Nova. No final decision will be made until the explosion dies down...