Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hike in France's ridiculously low rent ceilings, which have long been pegged to pre-inflation levels...
...settlement was merely a rejiggering of the publishers' original offer: the union got a raise of $3.55 the first year, $1.75 the second, a ninth paid holiday (Columbus Day), and three days' paid sick leave. Estimated cost to the publishers: same as the $7, over-two-years, pre-Christmas package...
...pre-doctoral and six to nine post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities, natural and social sciences...
...Jimmy Brown, smear Quarterbacks Milt Plum and Jim Ninowski. So thoroughly stifled was the Cleveland offense that the Giants needed little attack of their own, rolled to a decisive 10-0 victory which gave them the Eastern Conference Championship. A team with little individual brilliance and rated nowhere by pre-season dopesters, the Giants have won all the big ones, will meet the Western Champion Baltimore Colts next week for the National Football League title...
...rich, image-decked style make this chronicle more than a theological teaser or a jigsaw puzzle about just which Biblical figure is lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path of those who would compete with the Evangelists. He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel...