Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several years well known athletes who, because of their outside activities, fell behind in their work were given free tutoring by the cram bureaus in return for their prestige and influence as drawing cards to bring in other students...
...General Walther von Brauchitsch, was reported to have arrived from Poland on the Western Front, with headquarters at Bingen.* The No. 4 Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was reported making a tour of the entire Westwall. The chief of the Nazi labor battalions, Robert Ley, was known to be here & there behind the Wall, driving his men to complete and strengthen the fortifications behind which Germany was preparing either a permanent stand or a counteroffensive the nature of which was darkly dramatized by A. Hitler's reference in Danzig to "a weapon with which we cannot be attacked...
...last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe of trenches and pillboxes. Behind the fort system runs a "Little Maginot Line" constructed with French engineering assistance and, back of that, all the way from Liége around to Antwerp, runs the new Albert Canal: 250 ft. wide, 15 to 20 ft. deep, built...
Following a visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...
...horror of an All Quiet on the Western Front. But it lacks the butt end of the rifle, the stench and anarchy and virile thrust of war; and it snobbishly refuses to make death, fear and pain the universal levelers they are. Its public-school products writhe and suffer behind locked lips; its Cockneys are pure comic effect. But if the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, the World...