Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naturally not attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man from Grand Rapids Furniture, as he calls it, turns up to outrival the "homme du monde" and the story ends happily when Colonel Fleming, friend of the Grand Rapids youth, saves Belle from suicide and begs forgiveness for his prewar wrath...
...League and negotiation outside of it, secured by a host of expressions of political and industrial amity, Belgium seems to have reconstructed what M. Vandevelde calls "her shattered international status". Yet the very multiplicity of guarantees reveals that post-war diplomacy in Europe is very much a heritage from prewar days; and suggests that this is likely to be so until the League of Nations, the World Court, and the Locarno treaties attain the prestige of a much longer life...
...crime to possess liquor. This does away with the "rich man's" excuse that his is "preWar stuff...
Taxation. Taxation was seven gold rubles per capita against eleven gold rubles preWar...
Captain M. A. Cheek '26 will make his first appearance before the football men since his election. He will speak briefly on the general plan of the coming campaign, the object of which is to boost Crimson football prestige up to its prewar level...