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Example sentences for: pre-war

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“Alex,” as the huge square is known, was once the undisputed heart of pre-war Berlin, and its vibrancy was celebrated in Alfred Döblin’s great 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, later filmed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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.
• 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.
or the post-war Literary Club on Atwood Street above the pre-war clothing store, and ate hot sausage sandwiches and cold buttermilk across the street from the first Carnegie Library
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).