Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chosen for the return trip because of her speed, the Memphis is less steady at sea than the battleship Texas, which took the President to Havana. While the Memphis rushed homewards at 25 knots, the Texas plowed along behind more slowly but on a more even keel...
...Conquerors. An impromptu French defense, mobilized in taxicabs seemed sure to crumble. Frightened, scared to the marrow, Frenchmen proceeded to withdraw their capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Automatically the Diplomatic Corps would follow the Government. Suddenly it was discovered that the U. S. Ambassador alone proposed to remain behind...
...years ago 7,600 millions kilowatts of electricity. That was less than 200 kilowatts for each person in Italy (the U. S. last year supplied 627 kilowatts per person) and not enough. The Italian plants can expand to the great profit of the whole country. Such were points behind the incorporation in Delaware last week of the $33,000,000 Italian Superpower Corporation. With funds acquired through Bonbright & Co., Field, Glore & Co., and the Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co. (all of Manhattan) and under the presidency of Landon K. Thorne (president of Bonbright & Co. and of United Utilities...
...school of Great Decorators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which makes the contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis of repetition...
...word of it," declared Mr. Blinn, "and what is more, a minister came up to me the other day and said that he saw or heard nothing wrong in the play. Many people have thought that the play was a little risque, but with the recommendation of a minister behind it, even Boston cannot make a fuss...