Mills's family roots went back to pre-revolutionary days.

As in pre-revolutionary days, food shortages loom.

He also understood a basic American political precept: This country, since the pre-Revolutionary days of James Otis back in Boston doesn't like taxes.

However, even in the pre-revolutionary days some cities saw the benefits of such a layout.

The White Swan Tavern (301-778-2300) in the center of Chestertown, has been a landmark since pre-Revolutionary days.

He also knew that the abuses he attributed to pre-revolutionary days were still legion in Chiapas when he came asking questions a generation later.

According to some observers, its level compares unfavorably with pre-revolutionary days.

In pre-revolutionary days most of these nobles lived on their land all year round, being too poor to spend time at court in Versailles.

The czarist Romanov flag, a symbol of the Cossacks' longing for pre-revolutionary days, is on conspicuous display.

There is a bold urban underground of young people, most of them too young to remember pre-revolutionary days, who defiantly reject the strictures imposed on them.