Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other foods coming close behind...
...Christian Church, often mentioned, is never seen. It exists as the possibly common Idea behind the many wrangling Words. Of the two great divisions of Christendom, Catholic and Protestant, neither is ready to merge with the other. The Catholics are willing to receive stray sheep; the Protestants are trying to federate the flocks...
...chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes intersect. Then he loaded his big brush with auto-paint and started to work...
...good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell...