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Word: behind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of the tie in the Junior election the voting was not closely contested for either slate. Football captain Torbert H. Macdonald '40 was 30 votes behind the sixth place position, while Seth C. Crocker '41 of Eliot House trailed James by 13 votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Healey, Marvin Top Student Council Election Slate | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--A Congressional source said tonight that midwestern liberals, under the leadership of Wisconsin's La Follette brothers, have agreed tentatively to throw their political weight behind a move to get a liberal Presidential candidate in one of the major parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...quicker. Anna bore her first 9 mos., 20 days after marriage. Elliott became a father 10 mos., i day after his first marriage, 9 mos., 17 days after his second. Franklin Jr. fathered Franklin III a year and 20 days after he married Ethel du Pont. Only James lagged behind. He had been a husband 21 months before he became a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 10 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...didn't think there would be ladies." (Flash! Flash! Flash!) Sir Ronald turned to the photographers perched on the staircase behind him. "Haven't you had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...They all curtsied wrong-ways (right foot behind the left). Then Cecile departed from protocol. She rushed over and kissed the Queen. In a trice Elizabeth, lonesome despite the previous day's telephone call to her own two daughters, was on her knees in a flurry of kissing Quintuplets. Forgotten man for the moment was the King, in his Navy uniform, but Yvonne fixed that, running to him and taking his hand. Soon they were in brisk French conversation over the King's Navy buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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