Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...
...Swedish Match Co. Of every four matches, three are made in its home or foreign factories. Big customer of Swedish Match has been Germany, where the company controls 70% of the match production. Last month it was rumored that there had arrived in Berlin the man who is behind the great Swedish Trust, Ivar Kreuger, mainspring of Kreuger & Toll Co. which holds the majority interest in Swedish Match. As usual with Kreuger visits, his object was not known, his movements veiled in mystery. Germans wondered if it were in connection with one of the several German banks in which...
...side. Since 1790 this has been the Brown custom on such occasions. After the Sheriff came a faculty member bearing the university's golden mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under the U. S. and Rhode Island flags, further back in the line, strode Governor Norman Stanley Case (Brown 1908) surrounded by his staff. Followed many a statesman, jurist and nearly three...
...people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
...University has built the Briggs Baseball Cage and the new steel stands. The new indoor athletic building is going up a little higher every day. Many acres of land have been reclaimed on Soldiers Field and behind the Business School, and converted into playing fields for various intra-mural and minor sports. Since Mr. Bingham became athletic director about three years ago, the changes and the improvements in the development of athletics at Harvard have gone on steadily and consistently...