Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press cars reached the little village of Caude, five miles northwest of Teruel, they stopped for one which had lagged behind. Cigarets were lit. From one of the cars a young man ran forward to give his friends in a car ahead a bar of chocolate...
Most memorable shot in either reel is one taken in burning Nanking before the cameramen boarded the Panay. It shows a Chinese woman, one child in her arms, another tugging at her from behind, squatting beside a corpse, her crinkle-faced, open-mouthed misery oblivious of the camera as again & again she picks up and drops the dead hand of her husband...
...chalked up a nice 113.4 early-season point total in the Alumni meet. He probably won't be touched in competition this year; that is, if the judges can figure out some of the fancy curleycues he's been doing off the high board. Lothrop Forbush will be right behind him, and George Dana, sophomore diver, is expected to turn out to be a star. Bob Snyder looked pretty well in the Alumni meet...
...classrooms, textbooks are anywhere from one to 20 years behind the times. Gratified were many secondary educators, therefore, when last spring an able pamphlet on Steel, vivid in text and photographs, was rushed to students almost at the hour when U. S. Steel historically signed a labor contract with C. I. O. As President Roosevelt was being elected for a second term and preparing to unlimber his Supreme Court reorganization plan, an equally vivid exposition of Our Constitution and the Court was appropriately made available. Both pamphlets were issues of Building America, "a photographic magazine of modern problems," pioneer publication...
...Temple University some months ago 500 curious but sympathetic medical students and teachers listened to the roaring, buzzing sounds manufactured inside of George Yocum's head. A coal miner, George Yocum had been caught in a rock slide in 1935, suffered an injury to the carotid artery behind his right eye. The artery's weakened wall allowed it to swell out in a sac which was full of pulsing blood. In front, the sac caused the eye to protrude; in back, it throbbed against the skull, wore down the bone. The throbbing produced the noises in his head...