Word: behind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...visionaries are right, even expert visionaries; but the majority opinion of experts is nearly always, if not exactly wrong, at least a few years behind. And reasonably enough; for the more expert an expert is, the less willing to admit that another expert can be more expert than himself. Doubtless the man who first lit a fire with flints had to do it under the ridicule of experts in lighting fire by the method of the fathers, the rubbing of sticks, who knew that they couldn't light a fire with flints and that consequently no one else could...
...alliances he meant for one moment that we should not join with other civilized nations of the world, if a method could be found to diminish war and encourage peace. The limit of voluntary arbitration has, I think, been reached. I think the next step... is to put force behind international peace." What a strange reverse in opinion has come to Mr. Lodge within the short space of three years...
...history of American policy. It will in all probability be the first of a series of great efforts to convince the people of the United States of the wisdom of his doctrine. Whether or not we agree with the details of the plan we must confess that the motive behind it is of the noblest--the abolition of useless war. Let us hear him first and then judge the advisability of entering the world compact...
...Behind all the literary genius of James Russell Lowell, flashing forth at every opportunity lay the dominant strain of patriotism. The "Bigelow Papers" were the tools endowed him by nature, with which he most efficiently carried out his fixed purpose of supporting his country in her hours of need. True patriotism is lasting, universal. Lowell's works on this, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, inspire the same feeling that they did half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage...
...years, W. B. Rice of Milton's 1918 baseball team, J. O. Pratt of St. George's, along with E. C. Lincoln, now playing hockey, will form the basis of a capable Freshman pitching staff. J. O. Scott of Worcester Academy has given every evidence of ability behind the bat. These men with S. S. Rogers, of Middlesex, and R. P. Parker of Hackley, form a nucleus for the receiving end of 1922's battery...