Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handed his walking papers. In Paris Loyalist President Manuel Azańa left the Spanish Embassy, where he had lived since the fall of Catalonia, and took a train for the village of Collonges, on the Swiss border, where he expects to live in exile. He had left behind his resignation, to be made public at an "opportune moment." As a last gesture of international courtesy a lone French Foreign Office underling saw Don Manuel...
...they have usually done when glory was being dished out, his Italian "volunteers" again got away with the biggest helping. At the head of the parade of 80,000 troops rode the Italian Chief of Staff, General Gastone Gambara. Behind his strutting chestnut pony came the Italian Littorio Division and the Italian members of the Black, Blue and Green Arrow Legions. Overhead, 30 Italian planes flew in a formation of the Fascist emblem. When the Italian forces had passed on, the Rebel divisions were allowed to pick up the leavings...
Their methods are spectacular and press-conscious. The strategy is to get prominent men to speak on subjects which they conceive to be related to their cause, but it is impossible o discern any cause behind their eccentric gyrations. The Student Union supports a plan to bring Jewish student refugees to Harvard, and some of the Independents crack back with a plan, however commendable, to bring South American students here, as if to show that the Union has no monopoly on humanitarianism and the interests of democracy. The implication is that their policy derives from a reaction against that...
...sooner had the Vagabond been shoved behind a pillar than the estimable Mr. Welles and Mr. Meredith appeared. Vag gave up all hopes of trying to reach the stage to ask a few of his erudite questions, as he would have been in shreds by the time he got there. Consequently, he became resigned and settled down to hear the proceedings...
...Kraus took second in the breast stroke behind Callahan, who triumphed in 2:20.4 Eric Cutler and Ed Hewitt placed first and second in the quartermile to give the Crimson the meet with- out too much exertion. Ulen swam Powers, Griffin, Goldwasser and Harley Stowell in the relay, but the Crimson team was just out-touched by the Columbia quartet in spite of Harley's fine anchor...