post-war

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Examples of pre-war

pre-war
However, more recent studies on the subject fail to recognise the existence of a pre-war international slump, and some of them utterly deny it.
Overall membership, although it had fallen back some way from the wartime peak, was still more than double the highest pre-war levels.
Admittedly, the notion of the economist as counselling individuals was commonplace in pre-war economics.
Women were excluded from inheritance as well as asset formation under the pre-war civil code, and such gender discrimination has been perpetuated.
Such was hardly the case in pre-war resumptions.
The role of the international community is most instrumental in the pre-war period.
Official policy bore some resemblance to pre-war practices of deportation.
This pre-war antipathy has been one of which historians, too, have been well aware.
In addition, the weather was worse in the 1920s than in the pre-war years (102).
The rate rose in the 1930s and fell slightly when conditions improved in the immediate pre-war years with increased industrial activity and employment.
None of these pre-war adult cohorts however experienced the enormous cultural transformations that spread throughout society in the second half of the 20th century.
The war gave new voice to pre-war demands for the right to roam.
Some senior officers did believe that pre-war doctrine required modification.
Some administrators and governors clearly opposed any substantial revision of the pre-war colonial regime.
The process of postwar reconstruction involved many continuities with pre-war patterns of economy and society.
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