Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Japanese are his friends. Part of the magnificent, $1,250,000 Tokyo Embassy which the U. S. Government completed in 1931 is a cluster of three tiny tea houses where Ambassador and Mrs. Grew can make the touchiest Japanese patriot feel at home. Mrs. Grew has the background for it: her grandfather was that Commodore Perry who once opened Japan to the western world in 1853; her father was a teacher in Japan, and she was born there...
What the N. Y. A. can offer in practical experience, the Undergraduate Faculty offers in theory. Practical experience in Radio Servicing, for instance, gets the high school graduate his first job. For advancement to Radio Engineering, however, he must have a theoretical background--Math, Physics, Chemistry--and it is courses like these that the Undergraduate Faculty can supply. A new responsibility has come to face each college. With his potential knowledge the student can take an active part in boosting the high school graduate a few rungs higher on his vocational ladder...
TIME'S anonymous editors certainly rise above plain journalistic style every so often. Your small classic, "Background for War" deserves to be studied by every class in English. It is written in that best and most difficult to achieve of all English language writing - clearly and simply and apparently without effort...
...Count Bethlen suddenly resigned as Premier when a financial collapse compelled him to give up revisionism as the price of a French loan. Since then he has played a background role in opposition politics, occasionally coming out of his shell to issue warnings against getting too cozy with the Nazis or to growl about the decadence of his own aristocratic class. Hopeless and outmoded as most of the surviving diplomatic bigwigs of the '205, the crusty Count is convinced that his country is going to pot: "It is much to be feared that Bolshevistic ideology will again strike root...
...time that Benito Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...