Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring came to northern Europe nearly a month ahead of time, and Helsinki had an unbroken succession of lovely sunlit days. They formed an oddly unsuitable background for glum apprehension and nervous political maneuverings...
Americans who go abroad will "acquire a background which will enable them better to understand the problems which now face the countries they visit...
...Veterans Office staff, meanwhile, continued to comb its thousands of file cases in hopes of uncovering a conclusive lead. Although Monro holds several definite theories on the personality and background of the unknown crook who has used the name "Herbert R. Gross" hundreds of these files have been re-scrutinized thus...
...outlined the four most successful devices used in determining the mettle of the machines. "A background in electricity helps, since you can either cross the wires in the earphone or ground one of them...
TIME in the 19303 was reporting the facts about Germany, for example, in a way that clearly showed TIME'S working hypothesis: that the Nazi Party was very bad medicine. It reports the Communist Party today against the background of a similar hypothesis. The five or six editors and correspondents most directly concerned with Britain approach that subject with very different emotional attitudes; they meet at present on the following working hypothesis: Britain is in a bad way, and may well be in a worse one a year hence; but all we know about that country leads...