Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alley; to observe the five automobiles ?two on one side of the street, three on the other?start coasting down the hill. One nimble pedestrian leaped into a car coasting backwards, braked it, stopped two of the other cars with the bumper while other bystanders pushed from behind. The two cars facing downhill, bumping against the curb were delayed sufficiently for saviors to control them. Men bawling 'Thieves! Thieves! Stop there! Thieves!" chased after the urchins. None were caught...
...Butler. The fight is on. So far as I am concerned, I do not care whether it is in the Republican platform or not, it will be presented to the American people in the campaign of 1928. . . . "If a great party in this country will really put itself behind this amendment and in a quarter of a century, even so short a time, it has made no progress, it will be time enough to talk about a repeal of the 18th Amendment and going back to the saloon." The Verdict. And so it seems, as mentioned by Dr. Butler...
...mounted on a wheel. As the wheel revolves, the apparatus makes and breaks electrical contact 2,500 times per revolution. To each contact point runs a wire which picks up a bit of the current. These wires carry the current to 2,500 tiny squares of tin foil mounted behind the television screen in neon gas. As the current reaches each bit of tin foil it leaps through the neon, which is instantly illuminated. The flashes thus made, strong or weak, according to the amount of current received, build up the picture on the screen. They arrive at the rate...
...Manhattan, one Henry Fisher, traveling man, writhed in his seat at Keith's Hippodrome. Behind him sat someone mumbling the cinema subtitles aloud. Mr. Fisher remonstrated. The mumbler behind struck Mr. Fisher on the head, jabbed him with a knife. Mr. Fisher sued the theatre...
...ROAD TO THE TEMPLE-Susan Glaspell-Stokes ($3). Biography of the late George Cram Cook, founder of the Provincetown Players, the man behind the scenes of Playwright Eugene O'Neill and many another whose name is better known to the wide world than "Jig" Cook...