Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the reasoning perceived last week behind President Coolidge's appointment of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, Chicago lawyer, soldier, bank director, to the Cuban post. Like the selection of Morgan-partner Dwight Whitney Morrow for the recent vacancy in Mexico, Mr. Judah's selection, over the heads of State Department "career men," was an effort to discover and apply special aptitude for a special necessity...
With a little more than a week of practice behind them the University hockey and basketball squads are beginning to round into shape. Both teams will have games on December 9 when the hockey sextet will clash with M. I. T. and the basketball five will meet Boston College...
...name was formally entered for the Indiana primaries and his manager, State Senator Clarence F. Buck, reached Washington, D.C., full of confidence after a tour of the Midwest. Mr. Buck denied that Mayor Thompson would be actively unfriendly. Mr. Buck said that the industrial East was "lining up" behind Mr. Lowden. Literature to accelerate this "lining up" was issued, setting forth Mr. Lowden's record for economy and efficiency, also his faithful pro-tariff stand, also his businessman's reasons for backing the McNary-Haugen experiment...
...bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...cause of one species merging into another. But he saw the merging, came to be assured that the world's fauna were not divided into rigorous tribes but were, rather, in a continuous and universal state of flux; he began to look for the real reasons behind this perpetual revolution...