Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tobacco workers in Greece. These stories which emanated from Vienna and Belgrade told of scores being killed and hundreds wounded in riots in various Macedonian cities; of the mutiny of a portion of the fleet; of a Communist revolution which was declared to be in progress; of fighting behind barricades in the streets of Piraeus, and of other dire happenings...
...park, the parade behind the Vice-Presidential motor proved to be incredibly small. All told the audience that assembled numbered scarcely 200. The Evanstonians had, apparently, slipped off golfing, bathing, picknicking, rubbernecking that day, or were all sleeping late. The Vice President was vexed, and Mayor Bartlett, too. They scowled at the paltry assemblage, left the speakers' stand without a syllable, drove home...
...Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver linen, completing the structural ribs behind which the gas bags will be placed, testing the six Rolls-Royce engines...
...York Evening Journal (Hearst), last week, was a faithful photograph of John Davison Rockefeller. Big was the caption above: 88TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, and below: "John D. Rockefeller is celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday a day ahead of time." The Journal, unlike Mr. Rockefeller, was a year behind time. As every one knows, Mr. Rockefeller was 89 on July 8. But the New York Sun jumped the gun a year and said that Mr. Rockefeller...
...down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room. Vitaphone captures sounds, not on the film, but on a wax disc similar to a phonograph record. Some theatres have projection machines that can use either Vitaphone or Movietone productions. Mr. Shaw is not the only famed person whose voice and face...