Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCormick beat out both her male competitors. Representative Rathbone stalked along some 90,000 votes behind her for the second of the two nominations-at-large...
Provisions were packed aboard: six unsalted beef sandwiches for each, six bananas, and six peeled oranges wrapped in buttered paper and placed in a biscuit tin with some chocolate. Half a dozen other oranges, prepared at the Baron's special request, had to be left behind to make room for nine vacuum flasks, five filled with beef tea, three with strong tea, and one with black coffee...
From Quebec "Duke" Schiller, Canadian pilot, and Dr. Louis Cuisinier, French ace, left in a Canadian Transcontinental Airways Co. plane for Greenly Island. They returned with Major Fitzmaurice, whom the Irish Free State Government had just promoted from Commandant. The Germans remained behind...
...Behind the flight of Lady Sophie Heath there was jealousy and good British gold-the gold that comes from coal and iron mines which husbands own. Her new husband, Sir James Heath, is 76. She is pretty and 30 and got for her wedding present from him a turquoise blue plane to match her favorite stone...
...purpose of the company is to apply capital, which the Wiggin and Mond organizations gather, to commercial and industrial enterprises in the British Empire, Europe and the U. S. Said Sir Alfred, selecting his words meticulously: "The potentialities are very great indeed. The money behind us may be said to be limitless, but it will be only for good things. There are possibilities of further extension internationally. This group of financiers is not intended to be an octopus...