Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hutchinson '28 turned in a card of 75 in defeating his opponent Chesley 3 and 1. C. L. Stover '30 was only one shot behind his captain, scoring a 76 to dispose of Maggioli by a 7 and 6 count...
Friends of Prohibition were perturbed also by the language of Major Curran's report of his progress. Back of his board of directors is a membership of 750,000 citizens. "And behind that," he said, "stands the increasing determination of the American people to cut out of our Constitution the cancer that lodged there when the Eighteenth Amendment was enacted...
...greatest danger which faces Rotary today is that we Rotarians, so smug and secure economically, feel that by simply belonging to the Rotary Club, we are discharging our obligations. Rotary was never meant to be a smoke screen behind which we could hide from our civic duties. . . . Adulation for the word 'service' has become almost nauseating. . . ." This brief brave speech was made in Asbury Park, N. J., by the second vice president of Rotary International, whose name is Leonard T. Skeggs. The president of Rotary International is Arthur H. Sapp...
Closer than David & Jonathan, closer than Manuel & Esteban, were Daisy & Daphne. Closer because their relationship was not that of equals: Daisy admired from the depths of her self-disgust, Daphne tolerated from the fastnesses of her self-confidence. And because Daisy's inferiority complex cowered behind Daphne's blithe assurance, Daphne was bound the closer by protective responsibility for the girl she despised...
...meet M. I. T. on Saturday. The second University eight, in spite of its length and a half lead at the start was unable to keep up with the pace set by the Watts-stroked boat and when the Henley mark was reached, had fallen a full two lengths behind...