Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high) held fast. Twelve billion gallons of water in the form of a wave 75 ft. high went charging down the San Francisquito Canyon, into the Santa Clara River. By the time it reached the Pacific Ocean, 75 miles away, it was little more than a malicious trickle. But behind were the wiped-out towns of Newhall, Saugus, Piru, Fillmore, Santa Paula; 305 dead humans, thousands of dead animals; little white flags designating corpses found by rescue parties; muddy-yellowish slime and jagged stumps where once were orange blossoms; rotting carcasses on the $500,000 ranch of Cinemactor Harry Carey...
...pair of dress trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...
...Behind this announcement loomed the fact that the reactionary parties to which Ludendorff and Tirpitz belong have dwindled vastly in prestige, of late, and may well be reduced to impotence if the forthcoming election shows a now widely prophesied shift to the left...
...Horemans' run was formidable to the audience and it seemed likely now that a foreigner would beat the great Schaefer. The day before, Horemans had run off 345; Schaefer was already behind; to beat Horemans now would be hard, almost impossible...
...first time in history, without the feverish stimulus of war, airplane factories are buzzing, lathes are churning, propellers are spinning. Safely ensconced behind the spectacular flights that jostle one another on the front pages of the newspapers, the airplane industry is humming with orders. The common people are taking...