Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles club couldn't bear the thought of being ahead--no good come-from-behind does that--so they got clobbered in the first game by an 11-0 count. The amazing Ted Kluszewski hit two homers. The Chicagoans looked like they would repeat the performance next day, but young Buck Shaw threw three bad pitches. Two were hits out of the park by 155-pound Charlie Neal, the other by Chuck Essegian--the first of his two pinch homers that set a Series record...
...seems foolish to station six or seven people earning $1.30 per hour or more, behind a counter to dish out food when three could do an adequate job. An automatic milk dispenser would serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...
...Harvard Yale City Planning Departments have announced a joint study of southern New England designed to help determine why still other studies find the general New England area lagging behind the rest of the nation...
This idea drew support from John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, who said the suggestion "at first glance has most interesting possibilities." Conway said the system would cut down paid labor behind the steam tables, an item he thought took a big chunk from the Dining Halls' budget...
...miles in the five-mile race, Mullin was engaged in a neck-and-neck battle for the lead with B.U.'s Art Freeman, and Fitzgerald was a yard behind Bob Bomberger of Providence in fourth place. In the next mile, the battle tightened considerably, and the four leaders passed the three-mile mark almost abreast...