Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their thirty stroke racing start and then continued to lead all the way, slowly opening a wider and wider gap between itself and the crews fighting closely for second place. The only exception was in the lightweight freshmen's race, where Dart- mouth finished a mere deck length behind the faltering Crimson shell...
...heavyweight J.V. race, Dartmouth took second place two-and-one-half-lengths behind the Crimson by pulling away from Princeton in the last quarter of a mile. Time for the J.V. contest was a much slower 9:30.6, since stiff head winds in the middle of the race forced the Crimson stroke down...
Surviving carelessness on the base paths and in the field, the freshman baseball team came from behind twice to beat Boston Latin, 6 to 3, yesterday...
...about education for women, and it shows Gilbert at close to his worst. Behind the gruff whiskers, fat belly, and sharp tongue there lurked a small, narrow, smug, Philistine, and thoroughly reactionary mind, and a nagging weakness for the most squalidly dull-thud variety of pun. Both these latter qualities are prominently on display in Princess Ida. Moreover, some mad infatuation (something, perhaps, to do with the Tennyson poem of which Ida is a parody) led him to cast the thing in blank verse, of the sort Shaw must have had in mind when he said that blank verse...
...good-hitting Latin nine scored quickly on a first-inning triple and a subsequent single, but then fell behind as the Yardlings scored lone runs in the second and fourth frames. In the second, Jim Dwinell hit to left, moved around on an infield error, and scored the tying run on Boone's base...