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Word: behind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granted you are not privileged to sympathize with the significance behind the British throne, but why can't you acknowledge with dignity the sacrifice two magnificent people are making of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Regardless of what crippled the ill-fated Squalus and sent it to the bottom, one thing is evident-its designers are at least 27 years behind the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Yale's most brilliant hurdlers of recent years, Shields took second in the 1937 International Meet. This year, however, he started slowly and finished only third in the Crimson-Blue dual meet behind Donahue and Dick Osborn of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donahue Yields Position On H-Y Track Team to Shields | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...behind teaching come the sciences, with chemistry on top with 32, engineering with 27, geology 9, and anthropology and archaeology three apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Choose Business, Law, Medicine as Favored Vocations | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...Japanese Ministry of War, there is nothing in its 191-page saga devout patriotism to make samurai over in their urns. Anti-war in general, is certainly not anti-Japanese-war-in-China. Announcement that 500,000 have been sold is a backhanded way saying that Japanese are behind army. Sole resemblance to All Quiet the Western Front is that both books are about fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wartime Diet | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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