Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads mostly went to French farms or French factories, the schools were chiefly for French children. Even now, only one in five Moroccan children goes to school; and in the 44 years of the protectorate, only an average of eleven Moroccans a year completed a pre-university education...
...figure remained in a crate as Sir Jacob, now 76, fretted that he might never live to see it unveiled. Last week he put aside his plaster-spattered corduroy work clothes, put on a well-worn morning suit and black Homburg and left with his wife for the pre-Easter hallowing of the restored nave and the dedication of his Christ in Majesty...
...pre-game performance of the Harvard Band will feature a parody of Yankee manager Casey Stengel when the Boston Red Sox meet the world champion New York team in the '57 baseball opener tomorrow at Fenway Park. The Band will also pay "Wintergreen" in tribute to Governor Foster Furcolo...
...Quai d'Orsay dutifully denounced the book as "the highest fantasy." French officials denied only one specific-that Ben-Gurion had flown to France for a private pre-ihvasion talk with Mollet. Among the assertions not denied: that the day Israel invaded Egypt three French destroyers protectively patrolled Israel's coast, three squadrons of French fighters and fighter-bombers were at Lydda Airdrome, and a French-not an Israeli-destroyer, the Kersaint, played a leading role in the shelling and capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim Awal off Haifa...
...text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation which has been thought to be less authoritative than the Masoretic because of the difficulties of translating Hebrew terms into Greek. The Biblical manuscripts from Cave 4, yielding some texts far earlier than either, have considerably raised the prestige of the Septuagint...