Now he went back to the prewar years.
There was also increasingly bitter industrial strife in Melbourne as the prosperity of the prewar years failed to return.
His voice was clear and reedy, with the precise enunciation of prewar years.
Exhibitions that trace a city or town's history through the prewar and war years have been held in many parts of Germany.
The analogy to Great Britain and the prewar years is striking.
Overall sales were just under 80,000 in both 1947 and 1948, over four times greater than in any prewar year.
The all-important production of silk, for example, remained located outside the big urban centres throughout the prewar years.
It's as if ghosts of the prewar years have been jitterbugging up there all along - and they just recently invited us to join in.
Thus we abandoned the isolationism of the prewar years and joined the United Nations.
In prewar years, dates would meet under the clock of the old Astor Hotel lobby, three blocks to the west.