Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which has been held was that of the Manhattan Athletic Club on Thanksgiving Day, in which connection we cannot pass over the wonderful running of Myers, the champion in the 100-yards handicap, without comment. Starting from scratch, on a track covered with snow, he finished only two inches behind J. B. White, Manhattan Athletic Club (4 yds.), the time taken by the slowest of the three watches held by an amateur being 10 seconds. The other two watches, held by two well-known representatives of the sporting press, each registered figures inside even time; but the officials, wishing...
...just after this that Blazes again displayed his brutish instincts by assaulting our man, Scamp, who, in some way, had got behind Harvard's goal posts and was waiting there for Fill-full to kick the ball to him, so that he could get a touch-down, - a very pretty little play which our fellows constantly employ with great effect, - but the minute Blazes discovered him, he rushed at him, grabbed him by the head, almost breaking the poor fellow's neck, and threw him back on side as if he had been a dead...
...says I killed him? Nobody saw it; the very moon was behind a cloud, and we flew, flew, flew over the prairie. He was alone with me in the engine cab, and taunted me again with that devilish leering sneer; and then there was a dull blow, and I threw open the throttle valve and crept, with it in my arms, through the narrow window, and dropped it under the driving-wheel. Then away we went, and the heavy train leaped and jumped from side to side as we shot through the darkness. How white their faces looked...
...eyes, which I felt were slowly gaining the fiendish, yellowy glare. Pale, paler than the snow beneath our feet he grew as he saw the bristly gray hide shoo : over my doublet and hose, while my belt, unclasped and clothed with a bushy gray hair, fell down behind. "Sainte Vierge" he cried, his eyeballs starting from his head, as he tried to flee. "Madelon," I snarled, as I leapt after him, "Madelo-o-o-o-o-n;" and my gay gray comrades answered from the forest, "O-o-o-o-n," as they sprang out from the dark shadows...
...danger that needs to be avoided, if possible : that is, the tendency to stray from the question under discussion to mere refutations of perhaps very insignificant points. It might be advisable, in order to keep the subject constantly in mind, to have it written plainly on the blackboard behind the chairman's desk. The subject for the next debate is one of much interest and importance. We regret the action of the authorities in refusing the use of Sanders Theatre for speakers invited by the Union; as yet, we have heard of no reason for the refusal...