Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor (more or less verified here) is that the interests behind Smith stand ready to spend $100,000,000 to elect him by foul means or fair, but it is not believed that that amount of money can buy the self respect and conscience of America. It's a dirty business they're engaged in and I regret to see a magazine I once admired collaborating with men determined to buy the Presidency of my country...
...this year's Nominees for President of the U. S. spent several anxious hours last week on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. He frowned often, conferred with friends, stared down his nose, hovered near a closed door behind which a meeting of his party's national executive committee was in session...
...Behind the coffin walked Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and Marshals...
Therefore Dr. Clark decided and proclaimed last fortnight. "This amount is obviously too small to be of any great value. Any child going out for recess or any stenographer going out to lunch will get more ultraviolet radiation than she could get all day behind a window of ultraviolet transmitting glass. So, although these materials have an undoubted field of usefulness in solariums, and probably in animal houses and zoos, it is unnecessary to put them in schools and offices where it would be cheaper and more efficient to send the individuals concerned out into the sunshine...
...bring culture to the musical stage. Their first offering is to be White Lilacs, an operetta based on the life of Chopin and accompanied by arrangements of his melodies. It is interesting to observe that Broadway's most potent brothers never seem to get left very far behind. While Harris and White and The Guild, all comparatively new competitors, leap ahead with inspiration, the Shuberts gallop steadily along, always good-natured and always ready to accept the new thing without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that of A. H. Woods. A Shubert...