Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard...
...Behind the creamy buff walls of the rambling Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue he finds life as he likes it. He strides down the long halls and nobody pays attention. Officers in mufti scarcely glance at his tall, lean figure, a trifle stooped; preoccupied clerks with sheaves of papers do not even look up as he goes past. In the Air Corps section on the third floor he waves a hand at flier friends, flashes a white-toothed grin, heads for his office. Hour after hour he sits earnestly in an endless succession of technical conferences, usually...
...popular Dean Norman Rice. But suddenly four ringleaders in black hoods hoisted the effigy to their shoulders, shouted "Let's go!" About half the crowd followed, chanting lugubriously, carrying signs which read: NERVOUS HYSTERIA IS NOT ART CRITICISM; SEND E. JEWETT TO ART SCHOOL; JEWETT IS 70 YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE, MEDIEVAL ART CRITICISM BY ELEANOR...
...this, its third sales peak period, the industry can also thank the music popularizers who lurk behind every microphone, in every film studio. First peak (365,000 sales) came in 1909, when most cultured U. S. families boasted a piano and tinkling was part of gentle breeding; second peak (343,000) in 1923, when 55% of sales were player pianos. When the industry created a taste for mechanical music, it bred the germ of its own decline. Player-piano addicts soon shifted to radios. Seven lean years and near-death followed. But meantime, radio, once the piano's ruin...
...Falling behind rapidly after holding the favored Elis to a 4 to 4 halftime tie, the Crimson polo quartet went down to a 12 to 5 defeat and lost the national intercollegiate championship which it won last year...