Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women may curtsy, putting left foot behind right...
...General. Behind General Marshall's visit was a story of German intrigue and U. S. counter-intrigue. Führer Hitler had invited General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin. The Führer was prepared to shower the General with compliments, among them the honor of marching down Unter den Linden at the head of a specially picked regiment of Nazi troops...
Countess. While the General's visit could be put down as an outcropping of the Roosevelt Good Neighbor policy, the motives behind Countess Ciano's visit were less apparent, perhaps more subtle. The clever, scheming, 32-year-old Edda is no mean politician and diplomat. She was one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. As the apple of Papa Benito's eye, pro-German Daughter Edda was largely instrumental in persuading II Duce to go the whole hog in his attachment to the German Führer...
...quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial factor. Her lack of home metallurgical supplies would indicate that here, too, a warring Germany would be behind the eightball...
Living up to its reputation, the Eliot crew swept the course in 7:15.3 with the Rabbit eight following close behind in 7:22.3. Lowell had a time of 7:25.8 and the Adams eight placed in the rear in 7:48. The river was so rough by the second heat that the times were not indicative of the abilities of the crews...