Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examples of the steadily increasing associations we are having with our readers overseas. Our Latin American edition, like our other International editions, is bringing us a multitude of interesting visitors. Last month 30 members of the Brazilian press turned up at the TIME & LIFE Building for a look behind the scenes and conversations with members of our editorial staff. A fortnight ago Chilean Economy and Commerce Minister Alberto Baltra came to town and was entertained at dinner by TIME Senior Editor Francis Brown. These visits are a most agreeable and advantageous way of helping keep us here at the home...
Sabath countered with a short left to the jaw, then a short right cross with real steam behind it. New York's 200-lb. James Delaney stepped between them and stopped the battle before the bewildered sergeant at arms could parade the mace, the traditional symbol of law & order in the House...
...keep up with the city's mushrooming growth. Los Angeles had built 34 new schools in ten years and still needed "a new one every Monday morning." Though the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. had installed 416,338 telephones since V-J day, it was 41,405 orders behind last week...
...black Packard with drawn shades stopped before the palaitial brick building that once housed Japan's governor general in Taipei, capital of Formosa. Behind it rolled a Buick convertible full of bodyguards. They stood aside watchfully as , Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek hurried inside the building to confer with his old military pupil, now Formosa's Nationalist governor, greying General Chen Cheng...
...broad, palm-shaded streets, sleek automobiles rushed rich mainland occupants to recently acquired business and government offices. Well-groomed Chinese women cluttered restaurants and shops, jammed sidewalk money-exchange booths, displaying rolls of crisp U.S. dollar notes. Thousands of Chinese soldiers, with the defeat of Shanghai just behind them, camped in the cavernous railroad station or roamed the streets. Civilians and soldiers (1,500,000 in number) were refugees from the communism now flooding south across China. They were also a troublesome burden to a people who wanted their island home for themselves...