Word: pre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commonwealth and the state donated 12 acres on Columbia Point for the library, despite some feeling that, in terms of economic development, a better site could have been found. Pei returned to his New York studio and drew up a fifth set of plans--the glass and pre-formed concrete structure which officials will dedicate on October...
...number one spot, freshman Tiina (yes, two i's) Bougas led the attack and lived up to her pre-season billing, prevailing in the Boston Championship in her first Harvard match...
Soviet officials are now fearful that the rash of defections that began with the Bolshoi could become an epidemic among the hundreds of athletes who will soon go abroad for international pre-Olympic competitions. Last week party officials were preparing to give prospective travelers special indoctrination lectures. A more forceful method of ensuring loyalty is in store for eleven Soviet boxers who are scheduled to compete in the World Cup Championship matches at New York City's Madison Square Garden this month. Instead of two trainers, as is customary, 18 security men in the guise of coaches will literally...
...German settlers McKay takes with him to the Kansas Territory make music boxes that play Old Dog Tray. The young wife McKay takes with him suffers from underwork, a cold heart and a galloping case of pre-feminism. She also dislikes the residents of her husband's hives. Catherine "knew that the bees were women. They were dignified, dangerous, purposeful women . . . Their lives were all work, all women's work-housekeeping and foraging. They spent their lives in domestic boredom...
...wrote Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel. It told of a teen-age boy growing up among the scientists at Los Alamos. N. Mex., as they calculated their way toward the atomic bomb. Here the author sets his sights backward by 100 years to spoof the pre-Darwinian notion of nature as the beneficent servant...