Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON. I personally feel that this plan would be a success, although it would depend wholly on the way the men would go at it. Men would struggle in to the Tree and having won their decent amount of flowers would gladly be allowed to make room for those behind by squeezing past them and getting out of the way. Some means would be found of giving a fair start...
...lively scrimmage. The dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers. They would probably tear away all they could. Or, even if prompted by more generous motives, they would be unable to get out through the impenetrable mass of men behind them. Each man in the crowed would be so tightly wedged in between four men, before, behind, right and left, that however willing he should be to let the man who had got flowers pass out, he would be absolutely unable to move. This scene would be very flat and uninteresting...
...unanimously against the plan. Professor Hollis then showed with the aid of a map a scheme devised by Mr. Peabody, the architect, by which the fields would be separate but the seats would be in line and those of the diamond would continue in a curve behind the backstop. The running trach would enclose the football field. This met with the approval of Captain Dean and Captain Vincent...
...bearing the name of Vettius. In the year 79 A. D., when Pompeii was buried, the house was over 160 years old, but had lately been redecorated. A typical Roman house of the time from Nero to Vespasian, it was much more elaborate than was usual at that period. Behind the "atrium," or living room, is found a large court or peristyle, from which opened various small rooms and the large dining room. The latter is more a picture gallery than a room designed for ordinary use. The "atrium" also is surrounded by various smaller rooms, and is supplemented...
...Kelley (Princeton) and Wrightington (Harvard), half-backs. Fincke (Yale), quarter and captain. Gailey (Princeton), centre. Wharton and Woodruff (U. of P.), guards. Church (Princeton) and Murphy (Yale), tackles. Gelbert (U. of P.) and Cabot (Harvard), ends. Substitutes: In the line, Cochrane (Princeton), Rinehart, (Lafayette), F. Shaw and Wheeler (Harvard); behind the line, Smith (Princeton), Minds (U. of P.), Brown and Dunlop (Harvard...