Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artifice of paradox is essential to the art of politics. Desiring peace among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter?Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present?and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...
...I.C.C., which sits behind a long desk much like the Supreme Court's to render decisions and build up a body of law almost as fundamental as Supreme Court precedent, is composed mostly of lawyers who have gained reputations for patience and probity. They are not "distinguished" men, as distinction goes, but they are able and honorable. Commissioner John Jacob Esch of La Crosse, Wis., chairman of the Commission last year, served in the U. S. House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought...
...president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such heated squabbles in Congress over party issues have historical precedent. Nor are the man's allegations concerning the Mexican plot more than the chimerae of one who sees priests behind trees, seditious sermons in running brooks, and Jesuit plots in everything. But isolated as he is among statesmen, Hefflin unfortunately holds the views of a very large proportion of the voting population...
After lagging behind the Wesleyan five for the greater part of the first half, the University basketball team forged ahead to swamp the Middletown team 41 to 24, in a swift and hard fought game on the Hemenway court last night. A few minutes before the close of the first period a sudden spurt brought the University quintet into the lead, the half ending...
...from the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," and "The Return of the Native" their author cannot be reconciled with contemporary life and manners. The halo of fame hovering about his name is as venerable as it might well be with a hundred years or so behind it, and the gathering of this shy, shrinking, self-effacing little man to his fathers comes almost as an aftermath to a career which has reached the pinnacle of fame. It is almost ironical that Thomas Hardy, whose name will in time probably stand at the head of the list...