Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...
...evil fortune stayed skulking behind the great curtains of the woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga. After that came the first skirmish at Saratoga, in which Burgoyne won a few downy feathers for his hat; then trouble ran towards him with a war whoop. Due largely to the idiotic incompetence of Lord George Germain, who was sending orders from England, Burgoyne lost the battle of Saratoga. In this, one of the world's fifteen decisive battles, the rocket of British victory broke and splintered down in a bright shower of speeches, excuses...
...Stories. Wm. Leeds, the peddler in Last Night, is not merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles...
Fradd traces the origin of the posture classes, which were first given at the University in 1919, to experience gained in the World War, when many men broke down under the strain of war service, and had to be built up by special exercises in camps established behind the lines in France. Exercises developed at that time proved effective in restoring health to men whose faulty body balance was responsible for a low grade of health...
...then be called--is directly flying in the face of an opposite one in Europe. There the young thinkers of the universities are said to have abandoned the thoughts of the social philosophers for a complete and blind surrender to faith. Whether the Americans are one step ahead or behind remains where all decisions of this kind have remained--with the individual. At least Mr. Croy avoids dogmatism in his own code, a novelty in a day when inventors and manufacturers are become the most downright of theologians...