Word: behind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting of the team matches was against the Boylston Chess Club with the first place position in question. In the last game with the score tied, Fernsler, one pawn behind, succeeded in breaking through Lyman undefeated captain of the Boylston team. Fernsler himself was undefeated in collegiate competition and along with White was the most consistent winner...
...Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, television remained something U. S. citizens heard much about but seldom saw. Last week the U. S. heard something more about television: after twelve years Philo Farnsworth was to have his own manufacturing company with two factories and over $2,500,000 in cash behind it, one of RCA's major executives at its head. And vast RCA was to have its first full-fledged competitor in television...
...author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...
Three men were beating a negro mercilessly, one pinioning his arms behind his back while the other two macerated his body with straight razors; the attackers retreated, however, before the advance of the Freshmen who remained with the injured men until the arrival of a policeman...
...Arlington Amazons charged down on him and bore him along like a chip on some jabbering, be-furred tidal wave. Gadzooks, to be drowned in maidens and biushes! Right up to a door they pushed him. In self defense, Vag opened the door, slithered inside, and banged it behind...