Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weight behind Mr. Mellon's presidential pronouncement this year was, of course, primarily the weight of "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton." Critics may well contend that the reductions of taxes and of public debt, and the funding of foreign loans that have been accomplished during the Mellon regime, could have been compassed by any other competent banker; that the Mellon genius is mythical and that between it and Prosperity, if any, there is not the remotest connection. But the politically important fact remains that Mr. Mellon and not some other banker has been...
Only four members of the Viceregal Staff accompanied Lord Irwin. When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where...
...grin how the Viceroy had passed en route through the territory of the insignificant and torpid Rajah of Jubbal. Polite surprise that the Englishmen had ventured so far afield to hunt was the Potentate's first reaction. But when informed that they had left their sporting guns behind and were merely out for exercise, the Rajah of Jubbal became morose, evinced incredulity, and was clearly worried as to possible designs upon his little raj by a snooping Big White Viceroy...
Last week another President, Calvin Coolidge, clad in black academy robes and mortarboard cap with gold tassel, stood before a microphone on the Georgian portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added...
...Derby, Conn., the Yale crew, rowing beautifully, beat Princeton and Cornell without drama to win the Carnegie Cup. Cornell was four and a half lengths back at the finish and Princeton two lengths behind Cornell...