Word: behind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...began by showing that the negro race has advantages as well as disadvantages. Only forty-seven years old, it is a young race with all its future before rather than behind it. Ambitious and eager to learn, the negro people are passing through the new experience of owning land, school-houses, and churches, and even of opening banks and stores. They have the remarkable faculty of adapting themselves more quickly than most races to the habits and customs of the community in which they live, and of absorbing rapidly the ideas of christian civilization. In language, taste for food, matters...
...mile record and winner of last year's intercollegiate cross-country race, was the individual winner in the time of 34 minutes, 41 3-5 seconds. T. S. Berna of Cornell, who was second in last year's race and winner two years ago, was second, about 30 yards behind Jones, and W. M. McCurdy of Pennsylvania was third...
...Withington '12, the first University man to finish, took fifth place, a short distance behind P. S. Harmon of Dartmouth; F. W. Copeland '13, was seventh; R. St. B. Boyd '14, eleventh; F. W. Blackman '14, fourteenth, and H. M. Warren '13, twenty-first. These five men scored for the University...
...These three continued to keep together, Withington generally setting the pace, until after the four mile mark was passed. Then Jones took the lead and began to lengthen out the distance between himself and Berna, and Berna in turn began to gain on Withington. Before long Withington had dropped behind McCurdy, and in the last half mile was passed by Harmon...
...forward pass. He did not pass the ball, however, and in a moment two Yale players were on him. But just as the Yale men tackled, Smith came running around from right end, took the ball from Potter's hand, and dashed around left end behind splendid interference. There was one Yale man to stop him, and he dove through the interference, missing Smith by a good margin. Then in attempting to turn in, Smith slipped, tripped over the prostrate Yale tackler and fell forward having covered about 15 yards. He had a bad fall but was not injured...