Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the long continuance of cold weather which prevented the ice from breaking up until the last days of March, the class crews were confined to the gymnasium three weeks longer than usual, and are consequently behind in their work upon the river. This delay in getting out the boats, together with the nearness of the class races, the second of May, gives the crews a very short time for preparation. Five weeks is hardly long enough to learn the difficult art of watermanship. It cannot, therefore, be expected that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection...
...substitutes are Edgerly, Read, Harrington and Foster. This week, during the absence of B. B. Thayer, Harrington is rowing with the crew. Only a brief mention can be made of individual faults. No. 1 invariably catches behind in consequence of an extra reach he endeavors to take; No. 2 does not pull his oar clear through to the end; No. 3 swings out badly, and feathers under water; No. 4 swings in, and faces his oar over too much; No. 5 uses his slide too soon; No. 6 sinks his oar at the finish; No. 7 rushes...
...Irving, as he stood before his audience last evening, differed but little from the Irving with whom all have become familiar upon the stage. His tones were the same which have been so often heard behind the footlights: his delivery was marked by the same careful enunciation and emphasis which lends it its peculiar charm. In the subject matter of his lecture there was much that was of necessity somewhat trite, but the sombre current of the subject was lightened by many gleams of anecdote and wit. At many passages in which the lecturer rose to the height of true...
When Miss Blair and her mother went up to Edinburgh, Boswell accompanied her, and we have an account of his love making there. "Next evening I was at the play with them: it was 'Othello.' I sat close behind her and at the most affecting scenes I pressed my had upon her waist: she was in tears and rather leaned to me. The jealous Moor described my very soul." The idea of Boswell torn by an Othello-like passion is certainly a striking one. The next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while...
...three or four years, average more than for each corresponding period. What is worse, for the last few years, the crew has run in debt again. At the end of each year, the excess of liabilities over assets has grown until now the club finds itself $1,455.07 behind. It is this that we complain of. We cannot go on increasing the debt forever. Incurring a debt, except in some cases for extraordinary expenditures for permanent benefit, is willfully spending other people's money, hardly an honest proceeding. This is why we wish to have all unnecessary luxuries done away...