Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as giving its approval to the construction of a theatre, the eight-man group approved the recommendation for a Design Center. But it asserted that a new field of design to replace Architectural Sciences was not needed. Such a field "would go too far toward making pre-professional art school work a possible major," it said...
...appeals to Britain, France and the U.S. to join the U.S.S.R. in renouncing the use of force in the Middle East. While the Western powers were still busily explaining what a poor idea this was, the Russians blandly announced that they were about to release the text of the pre-Suez invasion notes in which Khrushchev had warned Sir Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet against attacking Egypt. In what they apparently considered a shrewd counterpunch, the British hastily published the notes before the Russians could-and thereby helped to remind the Arabs that Russia alone among major powers...
Since Major Higginson intended the Union, like all democratic institutions, to be self-supporting, its overseers rapidly constructed a system of officer elections and dues to sustain the clubhouse. The Harvard Union offered speakers, pre-game rallies, post-game dances, debates, discussions--to its members. The restaurant and snack bar were open all week long, ladies were permitted on weekends, and professors--either guests or members--were welcome anytime. Since Cam- bridge was a no-license city, students had to go either to a final club or to Boston for beer and other "exhilating beverages." For returning alumni, the Union...
...organizations began to threaten a strike. It would not be a real strike-physicians would keep on treating patients, but they would sabotage the N.H.S. by refusing to sign certificates enabling patients to draw sick pay, by pulling out of all N.H.S. committees, and by charging fees as in pre-N.H.S. times. The suggested five-shilling fee aroused some doctors' hopes (see cut). The government still said no and appointed a Royal Commission, which could spend months looking into the matter...
Last week, after press photographers had scrambled for months to provide Ike with a second-term portrait, Jim Hagerty announced the new winner: George Tames. The Timesman's entry, a third unsmiling pre-broadcast shot, was taken in February when the President was about to go on the air with his annual appeal for the American Red Cross...