Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does this book try to ring the church-bells for home or country or anything else. It does not even limit itself to the more sensational patches of the war zone--dressing-stations, trenches, No Man's Land; only near the close does the action shift from various sections behind the lines to the real front, and supply the story with a satisfactory climax. Thus, the work is complete, not composed at an oblique angle; its scenes dramatic, not melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest...
...Georgian Cafeteria on Wednesday were overshadowed in importance last night. A uniformed fireman knocked at the door of the Hasty Pudding clubhouse and wanted to know when "Fireman, Save My Child" would first he played in Cambridge. He was told. He then confided the suspicion that lay behind such fraternality...
...college training on a dollar and cents basis, state authorities are sure to administer even the most carefully constructed statutes in a mode dangerous to liberal tradition. To regulate the opportunity for the study of the arts and sciences by financial consideration is to forget completely the cultural motive behind these studies. Were Mr. Clark's state regulation to operate, learning for its own sake might easily be pushed aside, and universities become mere factories to feed professional ranks. One would prefer to find the remedy for the conditions which Mr. Clark discovers in a gradual adjustment of the supply...
...have been entirely arranged for, being in the hands of Thomas F. Galvin Jr., florist. The two rooms are to be decorated in spruce trees and smilacs. There is to be a bower of flowers at the entrance to the Living Room while the fireplaces will be entirely hidden behind a screen of smilacs...
KARL A. BICKEL, President of the United Press: "Journalism has lost more than it will ever know for he had just fairly started on a most brilliant career with all the rough spots behind...