Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Across the bridge we were in Cambridge, a city of 120,000 people, without a daily paper. It is dominated by Harvard University, the oldest in America. We motored by many noble piles most of them in the Colonial style, all devoted to learning, and nestling behind ancient trees are the residences of the professors, the hostels of the students and administrative building. Harvard has an endowment of six million pounds, and pious benefactors (i.e., multi-millionaires) are constantly donating new buildings. I think Harvard and its equipment impressed me more with the wealth of the United States than anything...
...asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated. The record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...
...having cleared the bar at 14 feet. Now that Hoff has joined the professional ranks, there is little chance of the Yale track captain's losing his honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane, who has done 13 feet, and Reed and Lindblad, who cannot even reach that mark...
...point out that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...
With the greater Boston limit seemingly reached the success of the campaign will now depend upon the response of the nation to its appeal. With large committees working in most of the major cities, with the worthy and deserving cause, with University graduates behind it, there is every possibility and hope that the goal will be attained and the Arboretum enabled to enter upon another phase of its active and beneficial work...