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Word: backings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

Chief objection to these colonial developments came, unexpectedly, from back-bench (unimportant) Laborites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Officers from H. M. S. Rodney: leave cancelled. Report back aboard ship at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Called from Cricket | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Back to his capital at Nanking went satisfied President Chiang; up to his fortress at Mukden, Manchuria, 400 miles from Harbin went the "Tiger's Cub," young Chang, after helping to break the railroad treaty concluded by his father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: C. E. R. Seized | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...when he forms a west coast line, it will probably join at once with the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line which Ralph A. O'Neill is shoving through along the east coast. The same U. S. money is back of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...mile Panama-Santiago route, the U. S. pays Pan-American Airways practically $2 per mile; not enough to cover flying operations, but enough for a sound operating back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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