Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eloquent appeal for tariff reductions: "We generally speak as if someone besides ourselves were responsible for trade barriers, but frankly, must we not admit that we manufacturers and producers of goods sold in all countries, we and the men and women of our employ, are the real force behind the trade barriers? We producers have labored to protect ourselves, our products and our wage standards, and trade barriers are the methods we chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests as we suppose them te be! . . . As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with...
Last week the U. S. Department of Commerce answered this question by publishing a list of landing fields in the U. S. California leads the list of states with 100 fields. Texas follows with 84; then Illinois with 64. New York State is a bit behind the times with only...
...history now, they say, that the Harvard crew last week took the lead at the start with powerful, lunging strokes; that Yale was a length and a half behind before the three-mile (three quart ers) mark was reached. Then Yale began to row with all the human efficiency that Coach Edward O. Leader had taught...
...months 31 days and February only 29 (30 in leap year). Emperor Augustus Caesar, jealous of his Uncle Julius' month July, gave to August 31 days also, and shifted other months to the present reckoning. In 1582 Pope Gregory corrected the calendar, which had lagged ten days behind astronomical time because the actual year contains 365.242 days, while the calendar year accounts roughly for 365.25. (The extra quarter day is made up during leap years. U. S. presidential election years are leap years...
...ball made a 180-yard parabola to the green, 15 feet from the cup. For four minutes Armour studied his putt. Then, there was a tap, a roll and a clink. Armour had made 301. Next day, in the play-off of the tie, Armour again came from behind to complete the round in 76, while Cooper slashed for a 79. A spectator's body prevented one of Armour's mashie shots from going into some rock-ribbed tall grass. Open Champion Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 32 years ago. During the War he served...