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Example sentences for: pre-war

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And ER was talking about the redress of some of the more shameful circumstances of pre-war life: lynching, child labor, total segregation, pervasive poverty.
A smart opinion piece in the Journal argues that Buchanan is not an American populist so much as a pre-war, European-style Christian Socialist like Karl Lueger, Vienna's turn-of-the-century mayor.
His efforts to insinuate himself were so relentless that Cary Reich, the author of this sprawling new biography (and of an earlier biography of the financier André Meyer), refers to his subject as a "patrician Sammy Glick" (though he never reaches the heights of heeldom demonstrated by the hero of Budd Schulberg's novel about pre-war Hollywood back-stabbing).
The decision to spare them was actually taken by Henry Stimson, the US Secretary of War, who knew the cities from his own pre-war visits.
• The use of car for a tram was certainly common in Norfolk (U.K.) before WWII--I can still picture surviving pre-war signs reading Cars stop here upon request, upon what by then were bus stops, in my home town of Gt Yarmouth in the 1940s.