Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarming a rate that public health officials have come to fear a pandemic, a world-wide occurrence of this disease, such as happened in 1918-19. Already Switzerland, Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In Denmark King Christian...
...will behind this consolidation is that of Arthur Curtiss James, largest owner of railroad securities in this country. He dominates, but does not control, affairs of Northern Pacific, of Great Northern and of Burlington...
...initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard " was sheerest coincidence but not so the careers behind them. Asa Packer was successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner, railroad operator, financier and philanthropist. James Ward Packard, the young graduate of the school Asa Packer founded, was successively an employe of an electric company; organizer of his own electric company; inventor, developer and promoter of a motor...
...successful that Mr. Packard was able to retire in 1916 from the presidency of the Packard Motor Car Co. He was succeeded by a man four years behind him at Lehigh (but not a graduate), Alvan Macauley...
...finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing he needs "a little loving" and wondering about the trained nurses...