Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams squeezed out Lowell in a tight overtime game, 19 to 17, breaking a 17 to 17 tie at the end of the regular playing time. Kirkland swamped Dunster 17 to 6, while Winthrop came from behind to nip Eliot...
With a great deal of fruitful work behind him on animal pigmentation, on the physiology of reproduction, on the nature and functional basis of sex, and on bionomics,* Dr. Riddle ranks as one of the half-dozen top biologists of the U. S. He also knows more about the pituitary and its functions than anyone else in the U. S., with the possible exception of California's Evans...
...himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much...
...powerful Edinburgh Review. At 30 he was an M. P., the most effective speaker in Parliament. Two years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying that space did not permit him to finish); and a historian whose publishers gladly sent him ?20,000 advance royalties...
...Crimson held their own until the close of the first half when the Tufts five broke a 13 to 13 deadlock and spurted on to gain a 22 to 15 lead at halftime. After that the Freshman fell behind as their defense folded up before the deliberate attack of the home team...