Word: prewar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the exception of the 1949 Stanford game, this is the first time since prewar days that the band has not accompanied the football team to an out-of-town game...
...Restitution of property losses to Jews still left in West Germany (22,000 out of a prewar Reich total of 550,000) has been going on since 1947. In the U.S. and French zones, about half of the claims are settled; in the British zone the percentage of settlement is much lower...
...their blood; home-grown Anopheles mosquitoes can spread the infection. Danger zones: Georgia (237 active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled in 79 U.S. medical schools last year, a 22.5% increase over prewar. <¶ Not all the heroes of the Korean war have been gun-toting combat men. Last week the Army added up some statistics, announced that 2,800 decorations had been won by its devoted medics. Among them: one Medal of Honor, nine D.S.C.s, 149 Silver Stars, 1,110 Purple Hearts...
...have worked 70 hours a week (when I had a job) and for as little as 90? an hour, in an effort to make my income equal my prewar earnings. I am furnished, free, a clumsy artificial leg with none of the postwar improvements, which will not be replaced as long as I can hobble around with...
...English go in for repulsive nicknames like this. It seems to have resulted from parents naming all their children Nigel and Diana, which, God knows, is reason enough.) Ten minutes later, the entire group is clustered around the bar gloomily tossing down whiskies and longing for the good old prewar days when bars stayed open till midnight...