Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced that the rapidly growing U.S. can expand almost indefinitely within its present boundaries. West of the Rockies alone, they believe, 50 million acres can be watered into life. This would be like adding to the U.S. a new country comparable in agricultural productivity to France or prewar Germany...
...Cambridge that the large numbers of men seeking admission to Harvard do not represent the best possible of all applicants. Provost Buck framed the problem as early as 1946: "What is not obvious to outsiders--and even to many very close to the situation as it existed in the prewar years--is the paucity of applicants of the kind we most desire...
After training in schools for the blind, Jim enrolled at the University of Texas, got fellow students to read to him, was soon on the honor roll. His prewar sweetheart married him, and they bought a house with his G.I. money. Last October, he passed the state bar examination, ranking fourth in a group of 300. He had developed a phenomenal memory, not only for what was in the books, but for the sound of people's voices. He learned to follow a conversation by shifting his eyes from one speaker to another, instead of turning...
CAREER: Iowa-born, 1904; West Point, class of 1928; served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. Man's inhumanity to man in the prewar Army; an eloquent four-lettered blast by an angry first novelist (TIME...