Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precise, perspicacious William Dawson, 53, of St. Paul, Minn, is, like all other chief U. S. diplomats now in South America, a seasoned diplomat. Behind him are 30 years of unbroken foreign service, the last eleven in Latin America (Ecuador and Colombia before Uruguay...
...borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think up further fancy excuses for aggression, in Berlin it was simply stated that "the eternal yesterdayers who always limp behind events [are] therefore . . . constantly surprised by them...
...drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over the long course the brightness peaks (nicks) lag somewhat behind those on the other. From the amount of this lag the length of one section is calculated...
...appeared briefly on the Boston scene Tuesday to autograph copies of his latest book, "Wickford Point," which features a Harvard Housemaster turned novelist. Seated behind an imposing pile of his latest works, Marquand was guarded from a rush of autograph-seekers which failed to materialize, by an efficient lady literary agent and a high-brow sob sister from the Transcript (pronounced Trahnscript) for which he worked in its palmier days...
...book "Studies in Classics of Christian Devotion." But the ground covered in his lectures is far more extensive than a mere theological discussion. Taking as his subject six great literary milestones of Christian thought all the way from Augustine's "Confessions" to the diary of John Woolman, he paints behind each a portrait of the author and a landscape of the times. With sweeping strokes he brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between each of these...