Word: behind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effects. In the first place, any bill that throws labor out of employment causes disturbance. Men who depend for, their livelihood on their daily work suffer from the closing of factories. In idleness for several days, they naturally blame someone for their misfortune. The fuel regulator and the Administration behind him are very likely to be the object of their criticism. Through the checking of industry, the Government runs the risk of losing the workman's hearty support. Not only internal, but also external discontent may be easily aroused. The United States considers itself valuable to the Allies, because...
...entails a certain amount of inconvenience. An opinion full of opposition is published in low in which the writer sincerely disagrees with the proposed plan. This is just what the Student Council wants, for such a change would never be made if the student body is not behind...
Moreover, a University shell is essential as an example to the Freshmen candidates, for the latter, unless they feel that the upperclassmen are behind them, cannot be expected to go into the sport with the usual energy. The football team has shown that informal athletics can flourish; it is now absolutely imperative that rowing live up to its gridiron predecessor...
...interest, whether or not it has been directed that way before. Our naval program, in the planning of which Secretary Roosevelt was invaluable, promises to lift our sea forces to a position worthy of the United States. It will be no dull dissertation this afternoon when the man behind our naval guns speaks. It will be no small audience which gathers in the New Lecture Hall, for Harvard men, above all things, like leaders...
...Faculty and one by Dr. Fitch, former president of Andover Theological Seminary, and now professor of Biblical literature at Amherst. The first was given by Lieutenant Andre Morize on "Life in the Trenches," the second by Professor William Ernest Hocking on "The War Zone and What Lies Behind It," the third by Professor Lord on "The Russian Situation," the fourth, scheduled for November 21 by Professor Wallace C. Sabine on "Aviation and the War," being unavoidably canceled. The next lecture was given by Professor Arthur D. Hill '94 on "What I Saw in France," the fifth by Dr. Albert Parker...