Word: behind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball and lacrosse record on the diamond. The position of Amherst and Dartmouth in the base-ball arena, and of Columbia on the foot-ball field, is quite analogous to the position Princeton would occupy if she attempted to produce an eight and rowed on the Thames every year behind Harvard and Yale. Let Amherst play tennis with Trinity, base-ball with Williams and Dartmouth; let Columbia play lacrosse with nobody and foot-ball with Stevens, the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers. Meanwhile, we'll promise not to ask to row in eights on the Thames, or to do anything...
...history of Bowdoin College, Professor A. S. Packard says he remembers Hawthorne as he looked in the recitation room, "with the same shy, gentle bearing, black, drooping, full, inquisitive eye, and low, musical voice that he ever had;" and Longfellow, sitting two seats behind Hawthorne a fair-haired youth, blooming with health and early promise...
...from 12,000 to 15,000. Nearly 47,000 votes were cast in Boston, out of a registration of 55,500. Butler's plurality in the city was 13,273. Ames was elected lieutenant governor. Mr. Bowerman, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, received 6325 plurality, falling nearly 7000 behind the head of the ticket...
...house and the finish, and the two crews rowed abreast until, through poor steering, they locked oars. No. IV. got disentangled first and crossed the line even with No. II., which had overtaken them on account of the foul. No. III. came in about an eighth of a length behind...
...line only three-fifths of a second ahead. A 660 yards' consolation race for beaten men was the last event of the day, and Myers decided to run in it. Having an even start with his competitors it became only a question of how far he would leave them behind. He pushed so far ahead that he found it safe to walk the last 20 or 25 yards on the home stretch and he came in winner...