Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation. When his eyes were tested, no visual defect was found to account for his peculiarity. Today Frank's principal, William R. Bowlin, is on the lookout for signs of inverted sight in other pupils to catch slight tendencies in that direction that can be corrected. He stands behind a child, calls him unexpectedly. If the child turns his head to the left rather than to the right to see the principal, it is considered a sign of inversionist tendencies...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham ran the world's fastest mile in 4 min. 4.4 sec. Last week, with his Dartmouth record not yet officially accepted, he competed in the annual games of the Knights of Columbus in Manhattan. Without close competition-Gene Venzke crossed the line 30 yards behind him-he breezed through a mile in 4 min. 7.4 sec., breaking his own (recognized) indoor record by one second. Seventy minutes later he attempted something more difficult. He entered the 600-yard race, less than half his usual distance. The others made a sprinting start. He elected to start standing...
...Homestead Act of 1862, any boy could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
Listeners and critics have acclaimed Biggs's playing on the Bach organ as a revelation. Its pipes, unlike those of the modern organ, are all out in the open, visible to the audience. (Pipes in modern organs are, as a rule, enclosed behind shutters; those visible to the audience are often dummy pipes good only to look at.) The Bach facsimile requires from one-third t01/20th the wind pressure demanded by a modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism...
READING THE SPIRIT-Richard Eberhart-Oxford University Press ($2.50). Wet-behind-the-ears poems of unusual intensity, sponsored by English Anthologist Michael Roberts (The Faber Book of Modern Verse). Poet Eberhart is a young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...