Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leadership of the opposition is right now putting its full strength, in men and money, behind [Democratic primary] candidates in half a dozen States who have been most hostile to the things for which this Administration stands . . . not in a clean cut general election . . . but stealthily, within the councils of our own party...
Four satellites, large as our moon, swing rapidly around Jupiter, all keeping the same face towards the master star, but each night displaying themselves in a different arrangement. Sometimes they disappear behind the planet, sometimes they fade into its shadow, or rush in front of it. In 1610, equipped with only a two-foot wooden telescope, Galileo discovered Satellites I-IV. On a clear night they are visible with a good pair of field glasses. Of the five other faint satellites. Satellite V was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard at the University of California's Lick Observatory...
...talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble-faced farmer holding a rustic pitchfork, with furrows ribboning behind toward a village and three bulls stylized with long morning shadows...
...nine-page survey with charts. Its big fact: In the first seven months of 1938 industrial production was lower than for any corresponding period since 1933 but construction exceeded the corresponding figure in every recent year except 1937. And in the second quarter of this year the building lag behind 1937 was cut from...
...display the Schick shaver along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter at the Chicago world's fair. After a disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost, and the number of competitors continued to increase...