Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Social and Religious Research, which determined to go to the heart of the problem, and sound the sentiment of the mass of undergraduates. The book does not present the opinions of the investigators based upon examination of colleges, but what undergraduates who have not the power of the press behind them think about themselves...
...Nominee Hoover today, Nominee Taft in 1908 was a President's hand-picked successor. Also like Hoover, he had never before run for a public executive office. With Roosevelt's aegis over his personal distinction, he easily beat Bryan. On a blizzardy 4th of March he drove, behind four skittish bay horses, to be inaugurated in the Senate Chamber...
...sworn the last five Presidents, administered the oath. Then came the historic Inaugural Ball in the cavernous Pension Building. Roosevelt slipped out a side door of the White House and soon was tracking and slaying wild animals in an Africa not yet crowded by tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they were vexed. Their clamor pained and confused him. The late Senator Dolliver described...
...opinion is required of the High Bench on these matters. When he hears of Hooverism and the Brown Derby, Mr. Chief Justice can smile, chuckle. He can point to his "dent" and lend his now almost universally admired bumps to the law, which follows sedately, a decade or more, behind politics...
...underground annex which lies behind the building next to Massachusetts Ave, is planned to be occupied by the book binding department of Widener. Books are now bound two levels below the ground under the front portion of the Library. All work must be done with the aid of artificial light and the enormous foundation pillars make the available space very limited. The binding is greatly retarded during, the summer months due to the excessive humidity causing book covers to curl almost immediately upon being bound...