Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union closed shop ban, number five on the ballot, was losing 86,863 to 47,356 this morning. Question 6, regulating union elections was behind 74,819 to 58,348. Number 7, concerning strike votes drew 73,229 nays and 59,287 approvals...
...rather complicated situation in the Holy Cross game. The chummy trio trying to dispose of him are: kicking, James Murphy, quarterback; kneeling, Bill Stetter, center; and standing, Walt Sheridan, left halfback. In the foreground, end Bob DiBlasio is also doing some graceful kicking, while churning up from behind are Chip Cannon and Paul O'Brien...
...would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
...Thought Behind It. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Solomon W. Laykin, suing for divorce, had a complaint (her husband denied it): she said that he liked to show off before friends by presenting her with a $1,000 check, which he would tear up after the guests had gone home...
...socialist soapboxer, Shaw has long fancied himself an amateur biologist. When Darwinian doctrine swept England like a Caribbean storm, Shaw thought it a creed "compared to which the" story of Noah was cheerful and encouraging," and-stoutly fought against Darwin's claim that there was no purposive mind behind the universe. Even those who thought he lost the battle of science should readily admit that he wins the battle of wits, hands down...