Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll to know that. And you'll hear more about Creston if Crestonman Frank Phillips is successful in his present quest for a rich oil pool beneath the famous bluegrass (and corn) fields of this area. Creston even had three daily newspapers when Crestonman Gerald P. Nye was behind this very desk...
Last week, as the voice of his fugitive master, King Zog I, dwindled away behind the mountains of Greece, drowned out by the cannon of Mussolini, Minister Konitza betook himself to the State Department to protest his country's rape and to announce that he, like Minister Hurban of Czecho-Slovakia (TIME, March 27), would not yield his legation to his country's conquerors. Should he hear from King Zog that all was lost he would, he said, burn all his papers: the Italians should never have them...
...would not back him up. He could do little more in public than denounce treaty-smashers as pungently as diplomatic usage permitted. Before leaving office he visited Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park, indelibly impressed him. In the past six years, Colonel Stimson and Cordell Hull have become great cronies behind the scenes...
...Behind barred doors at the Harvard Club, New York's diminutive Mayor LaGuardia spoke to a large group of Law School students, professors, and alumni at the Law Review's annual banquet last night...
...something more than the application of age-old principles to now materials, their claim that the new forms must inevitably change old conceptions of what constitutes "beauty", what constitutes indeed a work of art. Since it is quite probable that there are as many masterpieces ahead of us as behind us, and that present and future accomplishments in art depend on the degree to which the layman can develop an intelligent, imaginative and critical attitude toward, the work of contemporary painters, sculptors, architects and designers, it would seem desirable that we cease oncourag- ing art to live on its reputation...