Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the world's highest-placed ecclesiastical friend of Soviet Russia, white-thatched Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, nothing was heard last week about Finland. Two months ago he was still lolling in the club car behind the locomotive of history. Said the gaitered dean then: ". . . Communism has recovered the essential form ' of the real belief in God, which organized Christianity, as it is now, has so largely lost...
...thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...
...drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd...
America may well benefit from Mr. Siepmann's visit. In the opinion of many scholars, including Harvard's Professor Herring, the United States are far behind Britain in radio adult education. Commercialism, of course, is the fundamental evil as far as this is concerned. Pioneers are the British Broadcasting Corporation and its distinguished director of program planning...
After a slow start, Coach Hodder's second line of Prenie Willetts, Dave Eaton, and Stacy Hulse made repeated attacks on the New York cage. A pass from right winger Hulse, who had carried the puck behind the St. Nicks goal, found Eaton in position to make the first score...