Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven years ago the disease was described and tagged with the forbidding name of retrolental fibroplasia-because it seemed to be a growth of abnormal, fibrous tissue behind the lens of the eye. Doctors could not agree on whether the disease was new, or had simply gone unnoticed. Some said that the tiny victims were born with R.L.F.; others that it developed later...
...Braves have been dragging along ten or more games behind the pace-setting St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, and like all good managers, Southworth hates to lose. A high-strung man who gave up drinking 14 years ago when he realized that alcohol had him down, he has been afflicted this summer with headaches and insomnia. "I never used to know what other fellows meant when they talked about headaches," said Billy...
...long while Bucknell's faculty and students had a hard struggle. At the first commencement in 1851, seven sheepish seniors took turns wearing the only gown in town, changed costumes behind a screen. But as central Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World...
...radio industry exploded into instant insurrection. ABC (Stop the Music and twelve other giveaways) was apparently elected to carry the ball. At week's end, while NBC and Mutual retired behind the breastworks of "No comment," ABC let fly a ringing announcement: "No changes will be made in ABC programs as a result of the FCC regulations. We feel certain that...injunctive relief will be granted to the radio industry...as a result of litigation which ABC will begin immediately." CBS announced it would join in seeking court review of the ruling...
...will the boom last? Said the trade publication, the Boys' Outfitter: "Parents, sooner or later, are going to resist the Western trend...Johnny and Billy forever in...blue jeans, wearing sombreros in the home, and raising the roof with yipee and hi-ho while popping up and down behind chairs and sofas shooting off cap guns. [But at present] no end...is in sight...