Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...
...work in special fields; in fact, that is why the number of men admitted to Phi Beta Kappa has been increased; and this conceivably explains how the realization escaped the CRIMSON that many men who might have boned out a magna were simply conscientious objectors to the whole theory behind...
...house, which has been designed by W. T. Aldrich, will be in very much the same style of architecture as the other buildings, with an enclosed garden behind. It is expected the building will be completed about June 1 so that it will be available for next year...
...theory behind the Luxembourg museum is typical of the logical French mind. Praises of living artists are forever reverberating in the cafes and studios of France. But these hallelujahs, often fanatical in intensity, are usually ignored by bland, potent French critics. These priests of the Louvre are too wise to ballyhoo any skyrocketing dauber who happens to be the vogue. But occasionally the critical pundits suspect a novice of immortality. When this happens they have a routine gesture of generosity. They hang his pictures in the Luxembourg. For a minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands...
Machines. Hopelessly overtaxed, the market's machinery halted Friday night, attempted to catch up over the weekend. Early in the week, the ticker had run two hours behind the market. Exchange authorities ordered the omission of volume figures on the tape. To supply the press with the figures, Western Union sent to Chicago for telegraphic printing machines, chartered six compartments of the Twentieth Century Limited to carry them swiftly and luxuriously to Manhattan. Even without volume, the ticker ran 49 minutes behind in Friday's session...