Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important part of our plan. Only the men over 45 (and the women who admitted it) and our special regiment made up of "trash" would be allowed anywhere near the battlefield. The rest of the army, which would be mostly college boys, could just sit in the background and think about next weekend...
This is only part of the treaty which could end the present battle, for there is a vital procedural question involved. It is the matter of democracy in the conduct of Harvard's affairs, and it can be appreciated only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only...
Donlom called on the combined forces of labor, students, and intelligentsia to unite in opposition to the "ideological background for war laid by business and the administration...
Fisher, the most heralded of all the Yardlings, has done no more than a competent job at tackle, a position which he seems assured of by the lack of any formidable competition. He is big and has a football background which will probably stand him in good stead as the year goes on. Manegold, injured last week, seems the best of the guards, although Stannard has been brilliant on defense at times. As a running guard Sosman seemed a little too awkward to be really fast...
...John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look at those trains, gaily defying me to paint them right...