Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depression that will curl your hair." And it is $3.1 billion more than the President's original budget for the current fiscal year, in which the U.S. is running a gaudy $12.9 billion into the red. In its modest surplus, the 1960 budget picks up the pre-Sputnik, pre-recession trend of Eisenhower budgets...
There is, it seems, only one complete set of personal plumbing on the premises, which the men have pre-empted by the principle of the dominant majority. The nearest facilities for females are to be found in Memorial Hall or Mallinckrodt, a good distance in the biting breezes of January...
...Pre-Yule dating has blossomed into a mass of exam-time engagements. Perhaps the most astonishing of recent announcements was that of Otto Van der Meyermoot 7G and Gloria Schnook '62. "I'm pretty happy," said Miss Schnook. "We plan to get married three years from next December, after Otto finishes his tenth year at the Center for Australian Studies...
Listening to Professor Quaeritor, one almost imagines himself in Jivarro territory. Books on sex habits of the Mayas are alternated with relics of pre-Columban civilizations. Bamboo furniture decorates his office in Widener 5000. Quaeritor got a Harvard Scholarship, the regional jungle grant, and came to Harvard in 1912. Since then he has spent his life commuting between Cambridge and his beloved jungle...
...evolution of the elephant, from pre historic mastodons to Dumbo, with a side trip to Cambodia and a teary little documentary about an Indo-Chinese boy and his outsize...