Word: behind
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PARIS--Nearly 6,000,000 war veterans who claim to control more than half of France's voting strength tonight swung behind leftist leader Henri Pinchet's demand for a "national salvation" government which would rule until 1940 with virtually dictatorial powers
...Varsity Soccer team opened its 1938 season in fine manner Saturday when it blanked the Tufts eleven 5 to 0 on the soccer field behind the Business School. The first of the New England Soccer League games done away with, Coach Carr expressed satisfaction that his team could win the, League trophy this fall...
...Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...finest organization of its kind in the U.S., some said in the world. Although it has been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck, was charged with espionage by New England patrioteers and interned during the World...
...blocks as big as 6,000 shares were dumped. At 10:28, came the word that Hitler had agreed to a four-power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed every brokerage house in Wall Street. The ticker dropped six minutes behind. An order for 15,000 shares of U.S. Rubber jumped the price from $40.75 to $45. General Motors was up $2.25, Chrysler $2.63. At day's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average was up almost six points from the morning's low of 127.85. At week...