Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ending March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines of paid advertising in the six months ending last June, the Post is well behind all its after noon competitors, which rank in order: Sun, World-Telegram, Journal & American. Last week, Dave Stern applied a new kind of oxygen...
...four years ago, sandy-haired, 21-year-old Dwight Long, restless son of a Seattle builder, chucked his junior studies at the University of Washington and pointed his snug, white, 32-foot ketch Idle Hour out of Puget Sound. Before him lay the glamorous uncertainty of the western horizon; behind, Foulweather Bluff and the fouler prospects of graduating into a depression. One afternoon last week, with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan's Battery...
Aside from an emergency course of sprouts whisked up by the old Shipping Board during the War, the U. S. has never had a merchant-marine training school, has been far behind all other seafaring nations in this respect. Two additional branches are planned, one for the Gulf ports, another on the Pacific coast...
...assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament of the Oxford Group I have found some common sense with real fire behind it-not the mean-minded revolution of the changed life in the individual, which never goes beyond personal convenience, but a broad evolution which changes a nation's moral climate. This new evolution is our last chance...
...kinds of people give Hollywood the air, but seldom cinemactors. Once in a while a Frances Farmer or Sylvia Sidney has sneaked away to Broadway, without shutting the studio door behind her. But last week Cinemactor Franchot Tone (Three Comrades, They Gave Him a Gun) loudly announced that he was through with "the long hours, the boredom and all the rest" of Hollywood, was going back to Broadway...