Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal farm board, for the reason that control of taxation and the tariff are carefully vested in the Congress by the Constitution. More over, President Coolidge could see that not even the proposed farm board would have ultimate control of the farm tax or the farm tariff, for behind the board, with power to command, were the proposed advisory councils for each commodity. Aside from economic considerations, S. 3555 looked unconstitutional. President Coolidge attached to his veto message a 6,000-word ruling from Attorney General Sargent to that effect...
...could leave behind his duties as a professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Ahead lay Europe, then broad, fertile Russian plains, and Moscow, and Number Six Boulevard Sretensky...
...scene of the sneezing. All the passengers on the train as well as brakemen and conductors helped him look for his synthetic molars. The search had been relinquished as futile, Engineer Bush was back in his cab, and moving forward again when a great shout went up behind him. A local searching party had found his teeth. Amid cheers from the passengers and cries of "Shut your face!" Engineer Bush put them back in his mouth, frowned, and resumed his nonchalant journey...
...beads in Kings Bay, pinched himself to make sure he was alive. Chosen to drop the cross upon the Pole, he had his mystic misgivings. So when Signora Nobile wired her Polar Pilgrim to drop the cross with his own hands for luck, the good Father gladly remained behind...
...Behind Mrs. Anne U. Stillman's smile when she recently returned to Manhattan from her "third honeymoon" with Banker James Alexander Stillman was a journalistic secret, let out only last week when she was hidden in Canada. This summer she will publish a weekly magazine containing news, society items and photographs. Each week she will sign an article interesting to women. Mrs. Stillman is chairman of the publishing company. Her editor is Herbert B. Mayer, the New York Mirror reporter who ably dug up enough gossip to force the second Hall-Mills murder trial two years ago. The name...