• Before the second world war, Janow also began exporting its home-bred Arabs to America.

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  • He points out that both the child allowance and age related benefits were introduced before the Second World War.

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  • Smith had traveled in the Middle East before the Second World War, and lived and taught in Lahore of pre-1947 India.

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  • Before the second world war, some 5, 000 Jews lived here, and accounted, as they did in many Ukrainian towns, for a third of the population.

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  • Americans seemed to revert to a romantic idea of China that they had held before the second world war: poor and primitive, but eager to learn from America's example.

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  • And since Mitsubishi is a young company spun off from Mitsubishi Heavy in 1970, it has fewer unrealised gains on its assets than Nissan, which was established before the second world war.

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  • Just two streets away is the restored and ritzy Kempinski Hotel, where German celebrities drink burnt orange brandy and philosophize, just as journalist Hannah Arendt and her lover did before the Second World War.

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  • Before the second world war many Europeans felt disillusioned at the ineptitude of democratic governments in the West, while the newly established totalitarian regimes of Italy and Germany seemed to herald a national revival.

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  • The women who went to university before the second world war faced formidable obstacles: ridiculed by fellow students, refused teaching by some lecturers, denounced in newspaper editorials and often pulled out of study unceremoniously because of problems at home.

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  • Mr Segev is weaker when he ventures to make bigger historical judgments, such as the novel claim that it was the Arab revolt before the second world war, rather than that of the more powerful and more desperate Jews after it, which made Britain give up on Palestine.

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  • The 1937 match proved to be the final Ryder Cup before the intervention of the Second World War, with the 1939 event, planned for Florida, cancelled.

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  • The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.

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  • And yet, nervous as the Politburo was, Russian nationalism and history were taken up and exploited when despondency threatened, especially before and during the second world war, and when the Soviet Union needed a narrative to compete with that of western democracy.

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  • The controversial vote also comes only weeks before the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

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  • It is certainly true that Britain has much to be ashamed of before, during and after the second world war.

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  • The practice seemed to have been allowed before statehood, and had been used for soldiers during the Second World War, but no one knew exactly why it had arisen: possibly because it was difficult to travel long distances to a courthouse to marry an out-of-state sweetheart.

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  • Teddy and Yvette are devout young Catholics who marry during the second world war, before Teddy ships out for the south Pacific.

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  • Her novel begins before the first world war and concludes midway through the second.

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  • His remarks came just before a wave of revelations about Switzerland's record during the second world war.

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  • It marked Bradford City's return to the second tier of English football for the first time since before World War II.

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