Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston University, Northeastern, Boston College, and Tufts finished behind the Crimson in that order. Pete Putnam, Frank Scully, and John Gardner skippered the Harvard boats in the round robin, which had each crew sail six times in six different boats...
What he experienced at the critical moment when he crossed the sonic barrier is a tightly guarded secret. But when he looked at his instruments after a few moments, he realized that he was flying actually faster than sound. The terrible sonic wall lay far behind. The X-1 had not disintegrated. It still flew beautifully ("a pilot's dream") and Chuck was still in one piece...
...watercolors by a bouncy little Chinese-American artist named Dong Kingman, they found a strange but somehow convincing version of the place. Kingman had painted bits of the town from Central Park to the Battery, making most of his sketches on Sundays and working from half-concealed positions behind garbage cans and in doorways so as not to attract attention. "Sometimes a crowd would gather anyway," Kingman says, "and I'd have to drive them away by singing Chinese songs-very hard on the ears...
...behind; Blind Satan's voice rattled the whole
Without the Social Democratic Party behind it, no constitution could get the majority of German votes needed to put it into effect. Thus Socialist opposition could mean that the Western German State would not be established at all. If the Bonn deadlock is to end, the occupying powers had better change their minds or do some fast persuading...