Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic grounds is a well turfed diamond, and behind it a comfortable, covered grand-stand. The quarter-mile track surrounding the field has been put into excellent condition, and the candidates for the Mott Haven team exercise on it daily under the direction of their trainer, Pennell. They have three first-class men, Page in the high jump, Faines in the mile run, and Kohler in the bicycle race. Several other candidates are promising well, and some of the most sanguine spirits think that Pennsylvania's chances for the inter-collegiate cup this year are fair to say the least...
...Ludington, '87, got away with all his opponents at the 120 yards' hurdle race last year, and unexpectedly had them all behind him at the finish. He is a good man and will try hard to sustain his reputation this year...
...ought to be considered in ones choice of reading. Someone has computed that an ordinarily busy man will read one new book every week, and will do this for fifty years. This will give him at the end of his days a sum of 25000 books digested and put behind him. "How immense the importance" adds the at least judiciously selected writer, "that those 25000 should be, if not the great standards of literature." The great readers, of course, run through their thousands of volumes, but the amount read by the ordinary man is strikingly small...
...least two seasons it was in high fashion with the undergraduates. It was made of gingham, of a color and pattern to suit the taste of the wearer. It was a loose-fitting garment reaching to the knees, was gathered at the neck, and also at the waist, behind. It had a turned-over collar, a small cape rounded in front, and a belt of the material of the dress. The sleeves were either hooked or buttoned at the wrist. It was trimmed with a long-tasselled white fringe. The accompaniments of this dress were a low-crowned and broad...
...course, it would be unfair to expect that the freshmen should be rowing as well as the upper class crews, which have all had one or more years experience on the water; but eighty-nine should remember that if they are behind hand, they must work all the harder during the next two months to catch up, because they have to row the other class crews about the first of May, and they certainly do not want to bring up the rear on that any more than in the race with Columbia. Eighty-nine has plenty of strong, heavy...