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1923 Port Arthur (Texas) News 16 July 5/3 Pola Negri's greatest and first American made production, ‘Bella Donna’..was pre screened for the local censor board.

1956 Stanford Law Rev. 8 259 The very safeguards..have contributed to forcing the employers interviewed to prescreening the employees.

1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes v. 167 Although no claim is made that the use of this screen will improve the quality of the picture, this new technique will reduce the cost of prescreening the photographs and then stripping the half-tone negative into the flat.

1977 Time 20 June 48/2 The microwave detector could at the very least be used for pre-screening women—epecially those under 35 who are ordinarily not encouraged to have mammograms.

1992 M. Medved Hollywood vs. Amer. vi. xix. 330 The company then assured the watchdog group that it would prescreen programs that it planned to sponsor and would avoid supporting shows that contained potentially offensive material.

1929 Lima (Ohio) News 30 June 20/6 (advt.) 100% selected and pre-screened vita-vodville acts.

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xi. 174 With a prescreened film the contact screen is absent, and..the sensitivity of the film itself is varied in the form of a dot pattern.

2004 Miami Herald (Nexis) 1 Aug. 17 The back wall is neatly organized into sections for prescreened videos, kiddie technology, lunchboxes, shoes, socks and sun hats.

1956 Stanford Law Rev. 8 259 A more summary procedure for granting such clearances..in order to minimize the pressure for prescreening.

1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 241/1 Careful prescreening for human health hazards will have taken place.

1995 SalesForce Mag. Feb. 10/3 Consider doing your pre-screening by telephone.