Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a .500 record behind them of two deefats and one victory in their Bermude trip and a win over Queens last Saturday, the Crimson ruggers face a heavy team from the New York Rugby Club here at 3 o'clock Saturday...
Swede Linden, a converted outfielder, is holding forth at first at present, and inexperienced Sophomore Jack Orr, who didn't even play Freshmen ball, is at the keystone sack. Weak-hitting Ev Woodman has the call at short, and footballer Cottone is at third. Behind the bat the Indians have no worries when Captain Joe Urban is operating, but capable reserve backstops are scarce in Hanover...
With the aim of focussing attention on "a positive peace program, designed to throw the economic power, of this country behind the efforts of an aroused world populace to halt the march of fascism," the H. S. U. will seek mass support for the peace policy recently approved by the Harvard-Radcliffe Legislative Congress...
Beneath the placid security of America's little-red-school-houses, a disease is festering which threatens to undermine public education. Americans boast of their youth, their open minds, their opportunities to learn and think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
...four banks as collateral for personal loans. Flushed, but holding his handsome head high, Mr. Bird heard the prosecutor accuse him of living beyond his means, speculating in the market, and having a "hunger" for directorships. Then Bird's lawyer, George H. Cohen, rose to tell the story behind the crime. His story...