Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago the first crew of diggers appeared in a shrubby field near Pinopolis and began clearing land. But one impediment remained: South Carolina's condemnation law, behind which landowners in the to-be-flooded area took refuge, vowing to defend their holdings against the march of unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this...
...legal adviser. Dr. Moyer's duties include protecting frail, doddery Mr. Dickinson's health, driving with him back & forth to the Governor's Charlotte farm (20 miles from Lansing), where Mr. Dickinson putters in his garden. Dr. Moyer also spends a good deal of time behind a newspaper in the gubernatorial office, occasionally offering his patient nuggets of statesman'y wisdom ("I have a few ideas about government, too"). For these services, he receives $3,000 a year from the State as a medical secretary...
...close-order drill, concentrate on teaching men how to shoot. Majority of French ordnance is old; but, like a skilled automobile mechanic with a battered jalopy, French marksmen get the most out of 1914 Hotchkisses, 1897-model Seventy-fives. The French are short on good anti-tank guns, way behind in the air (nationalization of the aircraft industry was a flop under the Popular Front), well-fixed for heavily-armored tanks...
...Americanism in the arts lags behind Pan-Americanism in politics there was evidence in Manhattan that it at least exists. Opened at the Riverside Museum was the first sizable exhibition ever held in the U. S. of contemporary art from Latin-American countries. Its somewhat anomalous front man: Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, in his capacity as Chairman of the United States New York World's Fair Commission. To Henry Wallace's invitation, nine nations had responded with 343 works...
...Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (Ruston, La.) Senior Ann Holstead wrote an essay for her English class. Said Sophomore Varnelle Plastow: "It smells." Thereupon Miss Holstead, a Louisianan, challenged Miss Plastow, a Long Islander, to a duel. Time: the morning after Miss Holstead's graduation. Place: behind the stadium. Distance: ten paces. Weapons: chocolate pies. Result: Miss Plastow got plastered...