Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They never know when they're licked," declared Ohio Floyed Stahl yesterday, as he discussed the nine's promise this season. "Regardless of how far we were behind during the trip, the boys played as if their next effort were a potential game-winner...
With a week of hard practice during the Easter holidays behind them, the Varsity crew is beginning to shape up well. A first boat that was put together before vacation seems to be fairly definite, and no changes are expected before the first race...
Cloistered in his 40 acres of cypress, fir and formal garden, with the delicate profile of the Apennines behind and the valley of the Arno below, Bernard Berenson applied his gifts of lucidity and feeling to the unsolved problems of Italian art. One of his earliest and most famous feats was the creation of a hypothetical Florentine artist, Amico di Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that...
When Hitler enters a fallen province or city, or appears anywhere in public, Photographic Reporter Hoffmann rides in the car behind him. Armed with a Leica camera, Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann darts back & forth in front of the Führer unmolested, while other photographers are kept at a respectful distance. The world's news agencies clamor for Heinrich Hoffmann's pictures, for he is the man who picks the photographers to cover everything the Aggrandizer does, and for the best jobs he picks himself...
...Pliny Fisk had pegged the Government bond market at 110. One day, he happened to be standing behind the late Edward H. Harriman on the floor of the Exchange when Harriman, who had gone heavily short, attempted to break the market by a sudden offer to sell $500,000 worth at 90. Fisk promptly accepted, offered to take all others...