Word: behind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortstop Henry Young paced the Yardling offense with two hits in four trips, but the defensive work of Tim Wise, Win Carduff, Young, and Bill Hickey in the infield, Ben Akillian, Bob Thompson, and Ralph Robinson in the outfield, and Bill Goodman behind the plate, kept the freshmen even with Tech until darkness forced cessation of play...
...will also be Clark's first match of the season, logically enough, and that's Harvard's big advantage. Just back from a one-week southern tour, the Crimson already has four games behind it and a decided advantage in practice...
...giving examples of the strong personality which dominated any discussion, Allen takes his readers behind the scenes of financial manipulations, to the closed door sessions in Morgan's library or on board his great yacht Corsair. Here, are some famous deals--among others the formation of U. S. Steel and the attempts to meet the 1907 panic among others--guided by the powerful hand of Pierpont Morgan. Through this description of Morgan's character in action, the reader discovers the nature of the financial world of the times, its temper and its spirit...
Tempest in a Pot. As mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those...
...Harvard Rugby Club, with the experience of an informal game against MIT behind it, flew down to sunny Bermuda for the vacation and for the annual Rugby Week there. Coach Ed Callanan's forces still had a chance to tie Yale for the Big Three championship, with outcome of its game yesterday against Princeton still in doubt...