Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water conditions at Poughkeepsie to establish a world's record of 18 minutes 53½ seconds for 4 miles. Bert Coffin's 1903 boat load of giants while interfered with in the first two miles of the race on the same course were only a few seconds behind this record, 18-57-1/5. They rowed the last two miles eleven seconds faster than the first two miles. Quite unusual I think! Their nearest competitor was ⅛ of a mile behind and their stroke was held to 28 to the minute throughout the four miles. It is hard...
...gossip, they smiled pleasantly enough at a ceremony outside the White House, when President Coolidge bestowed the Congressional Medal on Commander Willis M. Bradley for World War heroism. Commander Bradley is a big man. In dropping the medal over Commander Bradley's head, and clasping the ribbon-ends behind, President Coolidge adroitly surmounted (and cameras recorded-see col. 2) a difficulty often encountered by Chief Executives when they are called upon to decorate towering pillars of the national defense...
With two fresh victories behind them, in Harvard golfers will take on the Brown University team at Providence this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...present world record are entered in the fifty-second annual I. C. 4 A. Track and Field Championships in the Stadium this weekend. Lee Barnes of the University, of Southern California holds the record at 14 feet one and one-half inches. Sabin Carr, Yale captain, is close behind this mark with his former world record of 14 feet. Ward Edmonds of Stanford University took third in the Interscholastics last year when he was a sophomore, and has since developed into a strong potential rival for first honors...
...year books say, comes life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most imperiously for him who would...