Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This fact was clearly illustrated last week, when a one-third minority refused to ratify the-Lausanne Treaty between the U. S. and Turkey. The vote was 50 (all Republicans) to 34 (all Democrats) ? six less than the necessary two-thirds majority. In executive session behind closed doors, debate had fumed intermittently for more than a fortnight. Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Administration backed the treaty; Senator King, sharp-tongued Mormon from Utah, and his band of Democrats fought it on the grounds that it fails to carry out Woodrow Wilson's plan...
...Certainly it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so, exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one other in comparison with which they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call...
...series or public lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points out it is only possible to paste this label on the centuries following the fall...
...foundations. The laboratory, or more properly the new Chemistry Group, will consist of two buildings connected by a tunnel. The first and larger of these is to go up on Oxford Street between the New Lecture Hall and the University Museum, while the second will be immediately behind it on Frisbie Place...
...Freshman team showed speed in its mile relay with the Holy Cross first year men, but finished 18 yards behind its opponents who ran a front race for honors. V. L. Hennessey '30, in the opening laps, made the outstanding Crimson bid of the race fighting at his racer's shoulder the entire quarter of a mile...