Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week: ¶Unpredictable Louisiana State knocked the props from under North Carolina and Halfback Choo Choo Charlie Justice, 13-7, for the Tar Heels' first regular-season setback in 22 games. ¶Underdog Southern Methodist, minus the services of Quarterback Doak Walker (ill with influenza), came from behind to beat undefeated Kentucky...
...Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
...masquerade of the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators had fooled no one; it was not a major-league ball club. Its weird collection of refugees from the minors did not hit, field, hustle or get paid as big-leaguers should. As the season ended (with the Senators 47 games behind), even some of the staunchest fans were boycotting Griffith Stadium. Penny-pinching old (79) Clark Griffith, who had met similar crises in the past simply by firing the manager, knew that it would not be enough this time...
...beat and blare of the fervid little quintet seemed familiar and so did most of the names: Ingle, Estes, Williams, Bodtkin. But behind the trumpet, instead of the famous "Red" Ingle, Hollywood jazz fans saw a curly-haired youngster of 18-Ingle's son Don. At the traps, in place of "Ace" Estes, was Estes' skinny, long-nosed boy Gene, 18. They counted off the same way right around the stand. Last week, devoutly following in their fathers' solid-beat footsteps, the famous sons' five were the hottest band in Hollywood...
...invented is still used to convert Japanese characters into Roman letters. In 1880, working with other missionaries, Hepburn completed a translation of the Bible into Japanese; for a time the wooden blocks which were being secretly made for a translation of the New Testament were hidden by day behind the bottles of his dispensary. In 1887 Missionary Hepburn became the first president of the Presbyterians' pioneer college in Tokyo, Meiji Gakuin...