Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chambers for libel. The case vanished briefly behind the closed doors of the New York grand jury, where Chambers appeared and seven times denied that any actual espionage had been involved; behind the closed doors of Hiss's lawyer's office in Baltimore, where Chambers began making pre-trial depositions in the libel suit...
...last week, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill sat down in a front pew in St. Paul's Cathedral for special pre-campaign services conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The day's lesson, from St. Luke 6: 39: "And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch...
...pre-Perón era, Doña María was a perennial president of Argentina's Sociedad de Beneficencia, a sort of community chest which supported most of the nation's hospitals, homes for the aged and orphan asylums. But when the Peróns came to power, Argentine charity became a political matter and a virtual monopoly of the First Lady. The high-born oligarcas of the Beneficencia pointedly refrained from inviting Evita to become their honorary president; Evita retaliated by virtually running them out of business...
...fears any successful relations between the government and the profession. Yet, in these days when taxes eat up the interest on endowments, the profession must look to the government for financial support. The compromise proposed by the government is a sound one. The AMA's fear merely reflects a pre-occupation with its own security as a powerful organization rather than a genuine concern for the plight of the nation's medical schools...
...opposition has changed sections of the bill, too. The present form that "scholarships shall be awarded only in fields in which there are not enough qualified applicants to fill enrollments," nearly eliminates pre-medical students because there is at this time such an over-population of qualified premedical applicants...