Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Production in the Hotel des Monnaies (National Mint) has been increased lately by 60%. To handle the increased work 85 new employes were added, wages were upped 20%. Still the work lagged behind schedule. Taking advantage of a new elastic interpretation of the 40-hour week by which the working day can be temporarily lengthened, longer hours were ordered for the workmen last week. The 500 employes of the mint, however, decided to tolerate no tampering with their 40-hour week. They began a sit-down strike. Premier Daladier ordered police to clear the mint and to break...
...Stolid, stoop-shouldered, 26-year-old Ralph Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke...
...there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind. At 80 miles she skimmed from the waves, into the air. Thirty-eight minutes later Pilot Allen brought her down in Seattle's sheltered Lake Washington. Said he, pleased as Punch: "She's a great ship . . . sweet as a peach...
...army fighting to defend Castelmare, audiences are not likely to be bowled over by Miss Carroll's change of sentiment. Otherwise, Blockade's main innovation lies in the fact that it concentrates not on the fighting in the front lines but on its consequences behind them. Glimpses of peasants fleeing from their farms, townsfolk with-pinched faces huddled beside ruined buildings or staring forlornly out to sea, make up its most effective sequences. As such, they constitute an interesting variation on the Hollywood war-picture formula but are scarcely enough to give the picture top rating, either...
...steward stabbed the one whose eye was blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome (2,000 miles behind them), that the company had gone bankrupt. They were all jailed for piracy...