Word: behind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the public schools. But if the average public school has any tendency to over-coach its boys, there are a lot of private schools in this country where the very highest standards of general training, discipline and democracy are maintained, and their graduates do not fall behind the public school men in college standing. BOSTON HERALD...
...Behind the organization are men of great sporting prominence and the plans call for the finest structure of this kind that has ever been erected. According to the estimates of the architect, the building will cost more than $1,000,000, and will contain training facilities beside the great arena which will seat 34,500 people...
...team leaves Chicago behind, and three days elapse before San Francisco is reached, where the men stay from 5.10 on Christmas eve until 8 P. M. the next night. The final goal, Los Angeles, is reached the next morning. From the 26th to the 1st the team has opportunity to scrimmage on the field at Pasadena...
...committee has swept aside the old foot-fault rule, with its numerous interpretations, and proposes the following: "Before commencing to serve the server shall stand with both feet at rest behind the serving line and both feet shall be kept behind the base-line until the ball is struck." The main purpose of the rule is to prevent the server from taking an unfair advantage in getting...
...Gompers, it is no doubt a Thing whose one function is to have an opinion opposed to most strikes on their merits and against the rest on principle. Some have even doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors, and less intelligence than Triceratops, who could have swallowed his brain at a gulp. It allows the "laws...