Word: behind
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most thrilling play of the day came in the third period when Halperin, behind perfect blocking, took the ball on an off-tackle slant, cut back twice and finished up a 60 yard run over the goal line...
...faces blown away bobbing down muddy Soochow Creek; mangled flesh being shoveled out of shell-shattered ruins. Unforgettable were the despairing faces of old Spanish women. Most unforgettable of all: a blood-covered, four-year-old Chinese child, sitting bolt upright like a doll on a deserted railway platform, behind him the charred beams of the station...
Another favorite stunt was buying behind the inventory boom: buying pipe-line companies which haven't yet reflected profits from increased oil production; buying chemical stocks like Union Carbide, Air Reduction and Allied Chemical in order to cash in on the inventory boom in the steel and textile industries these companies supply; buying rail equipment companies like Pressed Steel Car, American Car & Foundry, Colorado Fuel and Iron which seem sure to get the profit booming carloadings should be bringing the unprepared U. S. railroads...
...other. He rotates the bar until the sound volume is equal in both ears; then the bar is perpendicular to the direction of the sound source. In antisubmarine practice, it was soon found impracticable to rotate the detector, whether attached to the hull of the patrol ship or towed behind. So the detector was kept stationary and the effect of rotation was obtained by lengthening the path from one receiver to one ear, shortening the other, until the sound volume was equal in both ears. This was called "binaural compensation...
...extensible rear bumper which a parking motorist can crank out like a bustle to a distance of several feet, to prevent another car from parking too close behind...