Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back of the yearbook picture. They did not have to worry about hands, feet or the bottoms of their coats. Stalwart, silver-haired Secretary James John Davis (Labor) put one hand in his pocket, straightened his shoulders and let a small boyish smile start. Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket (with coat swung back), hid his left hand behind...
George Owen '23, pivot on the Crimson combination, was the star of the play. His sweeping dashes up and down the ice, leaving prostrate foes behind him, were the most spectacular events of a spectacular evening...
There are just about two good reasons for taking this course. If you are concentrating in Anthropology it is probably a good idea to have it behind you; and secondly, if you want to ease your program for the second half year it will turn the trick very nicely. Lest there be any misunderstanding let it be made clear that it is not an out and out snap course. It probably used to be; but Professor Hooton found that out, and it has been so stiffened that it is only a very simple course...
...youthful prodigies of the Economics department, with an Oxford education behind him, Mr. Mason conducts the course along lines that are wholly enjoyable. Informal lectures--you may interrupt any time you wish--are the backbone of the course, but there are also occasional sessions devoted to a general class room discussion, with the conservative students standing off their more radical colleagues and with Mr. Mason holding the scales...
Somehow Miss Ford's next remark, "Well, if I haven't met you before, I hope I never see you again," seemed to disturb the reporter slightly, but he rallied behind his indifference...