Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy rear admirals are selected from a list of captains who have distinguished themselves by long and praiseworthy service. One such captain is Capt. Franklin D. Karns, commander of the 32,000-ton U. S. S. Colorado. With 37 years of naval service behind him, Captain Karns might well have been looking forward to early promotion...
...covered the mile and a half in 2 min., 34 2/5 sec., had established a new record for the English Derby on the Epsom Downs course. Two lengths behind Call Boy's nose finished Sir Victor Bassoon's Hot Night...
...should be a good lesson to erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees Son; tenderly the gates open again...
...relief by the new obstacles strewn in Mussolini's path in the Aegean and Adriatic by Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest...
...track & field championship of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held at Philadelphia. This year it was Stanford. Southern California, last year's champions, finished in fourth place, chiefly because it produced a sturdy youngster named Charles Borah, who left his nearest competitor ten yards behind in the 220-yard dash, four yards behind in the 100-yard dash...