Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams for the second successive year in the annual meet. Entering the evening's contest a heavy favorite, it emerged on the long end of the score with a safe ten-point margin over the University. The Hanover runners were a good third, being nine and one half points behind the Crimson team which had amassed 38 1-2 points. During this year W. J. Bingham '16, now Director of Athletics in the University, was head track mentor and while his team was strong in the dashes, field events, and the mile run, it was no match for the well...
Stepping slowly behind, came a proud bay charger, the favorite mount of a Field Marshal who never forgot that he was first and always a cavalryman. Now Earl Haig's high black boots rested empty in the stirrups with their toes symbolically reversed...
...Behind the heavy bier and the light saddle walked three princes: Edward of Wales, Albert of York and Prince Henry, representing their father the King-Emperor.* Then, bravely, resolutely, came Dorothy Countess Haig, her head and figure bowed and heavily veiled...
...journal, printed with only twelve letters of the alphabet contrived by missionaries to crystallize a spoken language, once boasted securely the leading circulation of the islands. Now its sales lag wearily behind native strides in spoken and printed English...
...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...