Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ajax.' The final scene was especially striking. On each side of the stage the Birds were grouped like infantry prepared to receive cavalry, the front rank crouching close to the ground, wrapped in their wings, the next row standing with their wings stretched out from the shoulders, and those behind extending their wings into the air; in the centre Peithetairos and Basileia, seated, in white wedding garments, with Euelpides, Prometheus, Herakles, Poscidon, and Triballos around them, and the hoopoe at the back spreading his broad yellow wings above them all. As before, Dr. Charles Waldstein, who has just been appointed...
...that our system is wrong in respect to training up foot-ball players and we trust that this year will find an improvement in the formation of class elevens, in the better quality of material at hand, and in more systematic and scientific coaching. Lacrosse seems to have fallen behind as a university sport and we would warn all who have the interest of the game at heart that unless they improve the present time, the opportunity for establishing the game on a firm footing here will be gone. Bicycling has been energetically advanced in the college...
...placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers and high boots. The tables on the platform were occupied, the front one by professors who were to join with the rest in celebrating the festive occasion, and the one behind it by the "Prasidium," consisting of six officers from the different Corps...
...made before the next season. It has become almost a regular habit at every game for a few thoughtless persons, towards the end, to leave their places and stand nearer the line without paying any attention to the fact that they were obstructing the view of those behind. This had the effect of bringing those who could not see as well into the line and straightway those on the lower tiers of seats were compelled to abandon them if they wished to see anything of the game. Such a thing is thoughtless or else contemptible in those who first move...
...side line only a few feet from touch-in-goal. The ball was brought out as if for try-at-goal, when suddenly to the surprise of every spectator and unbounded delight of Harvard's supporters, Codman appeared to slide easily through Yale's rush line, carrying the ball behind her goal. Things began to look brighter for the crimson, but from the try-for-goal Cowling kiched the ball squarely against one of the poles, losing the hoped-for score. On the rebound, however, Bonsal was on the ball and for a moment it seemed that another touchdown must...