Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress appropriated $25,000 for a monument to mark the spot where General Andrew Jackson with his 4,000 raw recruits lay behind cotton bales as Sir Edward Michael Pakenham's 5,000 British veterans made their dawn attack on Jan. 8, 1815. Twice the redcoats charged. Twice they withered under U. S. fire, twice were driven back. Pakenham himself was killed. Jackson lost 13 men, the British...
...schedule. Moreover, instead of the 21% increase in production which the Five Year Plan hopefully called for, the Soviet Union's industrial production actually increased 24% during the past twelvemonth. Only by failing to achieve notably reduced prices for manufactured goods of sustained quality did Soviet Russia fall behind her schedule...
...Josef Stalin does not think so. He knows that Russia is a land of unlimited possibilities, almost unscratched resources and largely unused manpower. . . . Under the lash of his will I believe that the program outlined . . . will be accomplished. . . . Moreover M. Stalin has behind him young Russia, that never knew Tsarist slavery and is free from the faults and vices of servile psychology. He and they have a daring which Danton declared was a guide to victory and a faith which one greater than Danton said could move mountains...
...Passengers to Germany numbered 17. With them went plenty of food, 12 quarts of Philadelphia whiskey, six quarts of Philadelphia brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress...
...Remained behind, too, Dr. Eckener, to talk business with the Goodyear-Zeppelin people, to raise money for freight-carrying Zeppelins soon to be abuilding at Friedrichshafen and operating across the oceans...