Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side, and sixteen inches on the other, with a blunt end. This is grasped in the right hand so that the arm crosses the face diagonally. The hand is protected by a basket hilt of iron, the arm and chest by impenetrable coverings. The left hand is held behind the back. There are only four or five cuts allowed, which, if successful, inflict wounds on the brow, cheek, or chin. The only really dangerous cut is a straight, down ward stroke on the head, which may open the skull but is easily guarded. The favorite stroke is performed...
...tennis association has had twenty-six courts rolled and marked. This leaves only a few dollars in the treasury. Members have been very much behind hand in paying their assessments, and accordingly no more courts can be marked at present. The secretary will be at 4 Little's block, from 11 till 12 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and members are reminded that they are not entitled to play tennis until they have paid their dues...
Allen of the Harvards is now doing excellent work behind the bat, and if his present high standard is maintained in championship contests, it won't be the fault of the battery if the crimson doesn't come out ahead...
...crew gained, and immediately after, the the other would recover the lost distance. A half-mile from the finish the university crew, inch by inch, drew away from the seniors, and, though the latter raised the the number of their strokes to 38 to the minute, they slowly fell behind, until at the finish they were about three quarters of a length in the rear. The time of the winning crew was 11 min., 44 sec., whild the seniors came in about four seconds later. The seniors, at times, rowed as many as 39 strokes to the minute, and never...
...each year should be advocates of "voluntary prayers." Every effort should be made to get the right men nominated, and then the nominees should be supported at the polls on Commencement Day. The younger graduates should wake up to the issue and remember the undergraduates who remain behind them attending prayers against their wills. It is the younger men on whom we must rest our hopes, for the older men are so wedded to the idea of prayer-going that an appeal to them would be practically useless. With hard work, aided by the liberalizing tendencies of the times...