Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall Forum, that Sunday evening haven of Boston free speech and Harvard liberals, is threatened with closing. The Baptist Social Union, its main support, is reported to have voted against its continuance. Financial reasons are advanced for the move; but David K. Niles, associate director of the Forum, sees behind this action the shadow of the Blue Menace, which for a decade has been growing more and more potent in this state. Born of the anti-Red agitation immediately after the war, this undemocratic reaction found agents for its platform in a few super-patriotic organizations, and a means...
...first tee at Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...
...Gorce is an open course, flat, like most Florida courses, but well trapped. Par isn't often broken. Some of Cruickshank's followers cut over to the tenth and fell in behind Farrell. And when Farrell came up to the sixteenth needing only two par holes to win, all the people who had been scattered over the club grounds formed into lanes on each side of the fairway. Farrell came to the eighteenth with a two stroke lead, purposely drove over the heads of the crowd into the tenth fairway, pitched his approach to the flag and sank...
...game against St. Mary's. Last week, against Oakland Technical High School, Catcher Fiedler came to bat again in the ninth. Two strikes were called on him. The runner on second base hung his head, looked at the scoreboard that showed the University team one run behind. The bat boy was picking up the bats, the pitcher pitched, Catcher Fiedler swung wildly, hit the ball, knocked it out of the lot. "Another Casey," chortled California freshmen...
...finish, Crew D, stroked by Janies Lawrence '29, had a 12 foot lead over Crew C with Captain John Watts '28 as pace-maker. The other two shells were bunched slightly behind Crew...