Word: behind
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been proposed to keep preachers from holding office in Texas. There is probably the greatest wave of resentment against the preachers ever known in the Bible Belt as Mencken calls it. Woman suffrage has been a contributor to this wave of resentment. Many preachers have been accused of going behind a man and influencing his wife to vote contrary to her husband's wishes. A few more elections like the last one and the church will almost cease to function in the South...
...guest steps next into an oval room done in blue and gold. Formal gilt chairs stand at attention along the silken walls. The north end of the room is roped off with a plush cord, behind which, beholding the spectacle, stands an especially splendid group of persons, the prime guests of the evening...
...Behind the recurring cry against the college press for its paucity of sound opinion on college subjects there is a false assumption which weakens the claim. If educators, magazine writers and college editors themselves lament the lack of judgment displayed by undergraduate journals in a crisis, they are assuming that the opinion of student editors has a definite value. It is a rare thing for the opinion of a student editor to be worth more than that of any undergraduate, and this latter kind of opinion is worth very little...
...announcement was made with an assurance limited only by these facts, which, owing to the meagre likelihood of Mr. Hoover's withdrawal of his offer are scarcely limited at all. The implication of private privilege contained in the story--an implication which is the right of every newspaperman--has behind it, in all probability, the substance of actual fact. Only the members of the Harvard Corporation knew what passed in their meeting on Monday. In the absence of an official statement of the transaction, it appears evident that whatever news there was, found its way into print through a friendly...
Insofar as the out-lay of the new Houses in the imminent building campaign, has been made known by the University authorities, it seems that the Freshman dormitories are definitely incorporated in the plan. With one unit on the site now occupied by the power plant, one behind Gore, and another one possibly on the river front beyond McKinlock, the inference is that Smith Halls will form another House as will Standish, Gore and McKinlock combined. With the new Houses surrounding the Freshman dormitories, it certainly seems far safer to move the Freshmen to the Yard than...