Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 1918, leaving a long line of black eyes, broken noses and split lips behind, scrappy Battery D landed at Tilbury Docks on the Thames. Then it was shipped to Le Havre, and ten minutes after it arrived was in a fight with British Tommies. At Coëtquidan, the Battery settled down to learning how to fire French 75s. It had already worn out three captains. It was at Coëtquidan that a fourth came along. His name: Harry S. Truman...
Wine v. Potatoes. Behind the British-French argument on a European assembly lies a vast difference between Britain's and France's national way of life. The British are fighting a hard, increasingly successful battle for economic survival through planned austerity. The French have chosen a sometimes crooked middle road between a free economy and socialism, rely almost entirely on U.S. help for survival; as a result France has one of Europe's weakest currencies...
Here to Jordan's dilemma: with the roughest part of his schedule coming up shortly after the spring team begins he must produce men to wrestle at 165 and 155--men who will go into the second half of the schedule without the experience of the first half behind them...
...faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till 4 a.m. reading the classics. We like to play ball and go out on dates...
...angle becomes too great, the air stream does not flow smoothly over the wing; it breaks into turbulent eddies. The wing loses most of its lift, and the stall that results can throw the airplane, into a disastrous spin. The danger of stalling can be lessened by slots behind the leading edge of the wing. The slots feed thin layers of air to the wing's upper side and suppress the dangerous turbulence...