Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those colleges not experimenting on hold lines, is that of the war going on within the college between what he calls the democracy and the aristocracy. His two factions are not divided into groups of social standing, but rather of intellectual status. A constant pitched battle is going on behind the doors of a handred University Halls between those who think of education in terms of large groups with a medium average of intelligence and those who divide all the student world into the "ideational and the unideational," and say that only the former should be saved on Commencement...
...warm afternoon, to the dismay of the tea-party on the porch, there stood in the library a small statue of a gentleman whose naked freedom was a source of envy to the Vagabond. This gentleman was bent in a very athletic position, and in his right hand, withdrawn behind his back, was a circular object like a dinner-plate. Uncles and aunts had disclosed to the Vagabond the fact that the gentleman was preparing to throw the dinner-plate, but in hours of watching he never got it off, and great was the wonderment at his slowness...
...shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies a singular determination. That is why M. Stalin is feared...
...sarcasm, he made many enemies. After Lenin's death, Trotsky's political demise set in. He has held himself up as the disciple and interpreter of Leninism; the men in power have regarded him as an upstart and a renegade. The difference is not merely political; behind all there lies an inscrutable 'tissue of venemous personal hatred. For the nonce, Trotsky is in the discard. Who can say but that the fate of Robespierre and Danton hangs like Damocles' sword over his head...
...have said, we have always lauded the inventor. But both behind and in front of the inventor is the true research worker. The research worker first makes a fundamental discovery; then he proceeds to investigate it in all its aspects and attempts to explain it in its relations with other known phenomena. Next the inventor sees some way of turning this discovery to some practical account-and this is the step ordinarily called invention...