Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farnsworth could not predict whether the incidence of flu will increase from its pre-vacation level, when Stillman almost reached its capacity of about 70 beds. He referred to some authorities who claimed there will be a nationwide peak in mid-January...
...record, after a pre-trip upset of Rutgers, Harvard lost its first round game in the California Winter Classic to host University of California at Santa Barbara, 88-62. The next night, three men scored 20 points or more as the Crimson bounced back to take third place, beating Loyola of New Orleans, 95-84. Later in the week, Harvard lost to a physically rugged San Jose State squad, 91-75 and San Francisco...
...suppliers of law-enforcement equipment over the past three years. Among them is the maker of Chemical Mace, the liquid-tear-gas spray. Sales of law-enforcement equipment now account for about 9% of the Bangor Punta's $259 million annual sales and 30% of its $22 million pre-tax profits. The company broke into the market in 1965 by acquiring Smith & Wesson, whose revolvers are carried by 85% of the nation's policemen. At that time, recalls Bangor Punta President David Wallace, "we didn't foresee any social revolution." But Smith & Wesson's sales have...
...called handsome" but "decidedly of an intellectual cast"). Kate, it was hoped, would "worm out secrets in many places to which it was impossible for male detectives to gain access," and worm she did. So did her fellow infiltrators, who were first given a rigorous training course in pre-Method acting until they were able to disguise themselves as anybody and everybody from shifty gamblers to greenhorns "just off the boat...
...that the history of philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. It might just as easily be argued that the history of music since the 18th century has consisted of a series of variations on Bach. Without knowing it, he divided music history into two basic periods: pre-Bach and post-Bach. The difference between the two is that in the post-Bach era, he is a perpetual presence...