Word: behind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Excuses. Shepard knew perfectly well what their surroundings meant to his students' morale, and tests given to all the city's students two years after integration confirmed his worst fears. All his eighth-grade children proved at least a year behind the median norm in reading, language, arithmetic-and only 7% of those about to enter high school were eligible for "top-track" work...
Nude with Bouquet (see color) is not only Carles's tribute to Manet but a memorial to what he had learned from Matisse and left behind. Matisse's arabesque line is there-but subordinated to Carles's attempt to create volume with color alone. His Table Arrangement, quick and sketchy by comparison, records Carles's later flight into an unknown world where images existed only as reference points...
Chih's disciples dutifully sealed their master's unembalmed body, seated cross-legged in the position of meditation, in a six-foot concrete urn, enshrined it behind the monastery near Taipei where he had spent his last days, and at once set about collecting money for the gilding they were confident he would deserve...
...Giants gave up on Wilhelm after the 1956 season, when he temporarily lost the knack of getting men out in tight spots. His knuckler was missing the corners, and when he got behind the batters, Hoyt was forced to use a fast ball or slider, with disastrous results. "Hoyt began to worry and try different things, and the more he changed, the worse it got," says Wes Westrum, the Giants' catcher in those days...
...June 20, 1910, in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...