Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General Frank Murphy last week praised Mr. Hoover (for his measures to prevent industrial espionage), said the Department of Justice would be right behind him in the hunt on condemners of U. S. laws. Mr. Murphy also thanked the Dies Committee for its exposures, assured its Chairman Martin Dies that un-American wrongdoers will be remorselessly punished. But, said the Attorney General, his Department will act only on good evidence, will punish no citizen for his opinions-in short, will hunt no witches...
...Collier Publishing Co.'s Country Home, with 1,648,000 readers. (First was the newly-merged Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife with 2,475,000.) Selling to subscribers at 25? a year, Country Home had long struggled to break even. But in advertising revenues it was way behind: with "5,000 in the first nine months of 1939, it stood sixth on a list that Country Gentleman led with...
Middle Ear. Most common cause of dim hearing is middle-ear injury and scarring-caused in turn by violent nose-blowing, infection of the Eustachian tube or the heavy mastoid bone which bulges out behind the ear. Safest maxim for ear-picking children: "Nothing smaller than the elbow should ever be put into the ear." Mastoid infections occur most frequently in children under twelve, for their delicate membranes are not tough enough to withstand bacterial assault. Standard procedure for mastoid infections is surgical removal of wedges of the infected bone...
...deep grey and black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...
Langy Burwell paced the Harvard squad by capturing third place in 27:37, and Joe McLaughlin was right behind him in the number four spot in 27:49. There was a triple tie for third among Gene Clark, Penn Tuttle and Dave Simboli, in 27:51. Jim, Light body and Dick Wing tied for eighth position. Yale and Princeton split the next six places between them, but both were hopelessly outclassed by the powerfully balanced Harvard squad which continued its undefeated march...