Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...audience in the Athenian theatre included the every-day class of citizens. In the front row were the priests and magistrates; behind them the body of the senate and other dignitaries. There was a place set apart for the ladies; women, however, do not appear to have been present at the performances of comedy. The people came early in the morning; they were garlanded, and brought their lunches. Tragedy was played in the morning, and comedy in the afternoon. From 20,000 to 30,000 people attended these performances, and, it is said, were deeply moved by the representations...
...divided by stairways into wedge shaped divisions. The outer row of seats was about three hundred feet from the orchestra and had an actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once been a noble and majestic structure but it is now only a bewildering mass of ruins...
...will take hard individual work to bring them up to the necessary standard. The only feature of the game was the pitching of Oxford, who held the freshman down to four scattering hits in nine innings. In the fifth inning Sheldon injured his finger, and Whitely took his place behind the bat, while Wilson played centre field. Spaulding pitched for the freshman after the fifth inning. The score was as follows...
...company with $100,000 capital is behind it, composed of some of the best literary and social elements of New York and Philadelphia. To a young man of a literary turn, who is able to command a small sum as an investment, in order that he may be a principle, a leading position is available, and an opportunity is offered for a name and a profitable life work. Technical newspaper training is not necessary. Idlers will please not write to us; we hope to hear from a young man who means business...
...which goes in second shall follow their innings, if they have scored forty per cent. less runs than their opponents should be substituted in the case of one day matches for Law I, which says, "The side that goes in second shall follow on if they are sixty runs behind." After a good deal of debate, the motion was carried. The following fixtures were arranged for Harvard...