Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Frank B. Kellogg went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and talked for two and a half hours from a prepared memorandum. Mexico is fomenting the Liberal revolution in Nicaragua which is trying to overthrow the U. S.'s protégé, President Diaz; and behind Mexico are the Bolshevists of Russia, said Mr. Kellogg. He produced documents: 1) a resolution of the Red International of Trade Unions in Moscow, appealing to "the toilers of Latin America"; 2) a speech by an unnamed representative of the American Communist Party, urging his fellows to become "the defenders...
...North Negroes live in segregated districts . . . high rents, lack of sanitation, breaking down of family life. . . . When a Negro leaves the South he leaves his skill behind. He must take a job of a different kind . . . there is no cotton to pick in the North. . . . The bulk of the Negro population is still in the South . . . [they] must be tended at their source . . . 8,000,000 ... a staggering problem...
...Bible is depicted as one who ... cursed a snake, sewed skins together for clothes, preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage; who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks...
...Harvard basket tossers have four victories behind them, having defeated Boston University, M.I. T., Clark and Worcester Polytechnic by large scores...
...Andover contest finds the ice squad of Captain C. I. Wylde '27, with one win and a loss behind them. Lack of teamwork resulted in the 5-4 defeat handed them by Milton on the Academy rink in overtime. In their Cantab contest it was the scintillating skating and stellar stickwork of individuals that enabled them to take the measure of the local schoolboys by a score...