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Word: behind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harrison announced himself 100% behind the President; rumors continued that George had shifted to the Administration side; Carter Glass said, out of the right side of his mouth: "Naturally, I would prefer to be on friendly terms with the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...their power to rouse and rally emotional opinion. Yet such good Republicans as Frank Knox, Alf M. Landon (both of whom this week were called to the White House), Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, were all for embargo repeal. Editorially, the U. S. press was almost unanimous behind him. Out of Washington came the reminiscent cry "a little block of willful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Behind the new Littauer School of Public Administration are the Law School buildings, and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...salty, 59-year-old Edward Merrill, last year's champion. After three days of racing, over a six-mile course, 22-year-old Robert Levin of Beverly, N. J. hoisted the championship pennant-scoring 109½ points with his Bad News. Runner-up, only 5½ points behind, was spunky Sally Wilcox and her Scud-a better skipper by three points than oldtimer Merrill and J. Ramsey Speer Jr., chairman of the Regatta Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comets | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...could scarcely cope. The implacability of a good bomb thrower (TIME, Sept. 4) showed itself inappropriate, to say the least, when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually would tolerate nothing but adulation. And behind the façade of the U. S. S. R., the great Socialist world power, a late Roman corruption grew fantastically until to the west the façade seemed torn open by the "purge" of 1936-37, blasted by the Pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Background for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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