Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep on good naval footing is to maintain its Navy at its present relative standing in battleships and aircraft carriers, continue its cruiser and destroyer construction program, sharply accelerate its aircraft and submarine program, step up its aircraft procurement to 500 planes per year. Object: to stay just behind Great Britain in heavy categories, come well up with the authoritarians in lighter ships. The job of building ships is therefore highly important to the U. S. Navy, equally important to the U. S. citizens who must pay the bills now or later. This job belongs to Charles Edison, eldest...
...greatest mass flights in modern history came to an end one afternoon last week when 40,000 soldiers of the once-fine Catalonian Army and a few straggling civilian refugees evacuated the Spanish border village of Puigcerda, crossed into France and closed the last gate to northern Loyalist Spain behind them. A few fanatical anarchists committed suicide by staying behind and fighting the Insurgents to the end, but at exactly 2:40 p. m. Friday, Feb. 10, a handful of Rebel troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco nailed their red & gold banner to a telegraph pole at the edge...
...himself on following his own personal principles of justice. He soon ran afoul of the Loyalist Government, was accused of pocketing some of the fines he collected, was finally imprisoned in a hospital. Three weeks ago, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco's troops took Barcelona, se४r Barriobero remained behind, of his own volition. Last week, a broken, stoop-shouldered, tired old man, he was tried before a military tribunal in the same court over which he had once presided...
Biggest dog-show in the world is Cruft's of Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
...Chagall, a 51-year-old Russian with a flair for flowery dreams. Typical: Inspiration, showing a youth playing a fiddle with one hand while kneeling on the back of a deer. This is no mean stunt, and as a reward a Christmasy angel is presenting him with a bouquet. Behind is calm blue water with a calm blue couple in a rowboat...