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Word: behinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freddy the Cabman was as temperamental as an opera star about being interviewed. It took the CRIMSON reporter a half hour to persuade him that a few reminiscences, not a nocturnal sleigh ride over frozen Cambridge streets behind old Freddy the Horse, was the object of his approach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coachman to the College Tells of Halcyon Days When "T. R." Was His Fare--Freddy Only Man to Floor Best Man in Union | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

Coach Lewis said last night that he expects strong opposition from the Tech matman who have the experience of three meets behind them. Saturday night they bettered the Tufts team by three to one points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAKENED WRESTLING TEAM WILL FACE TECH | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...question of real significance is not whether the charges are true .or false, but whether any League member state will attempt to secure denunciation of the Treaty of Tirana when it is deposited with the League of Nations. If that point is raised, and if Great Britain stands behind Italy in quashing denunciation, the drift of events will be sufficiently clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blatant Accusations | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Nationalist Capital, just across the Yangtze. Daily for months the Nationalist Government has kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since birth that it was better to empty slops than .hear the white man's cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mouth of Han' | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...meant competent critical appraisal of the work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry familiar to everyone, was a sure formula for attracting attention. Mr. Kalish attracted it, deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Glorified Workers | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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