Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Hapgood is the power behind the typewriter on which the Boston Herald's news is daily pounded out. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, and graduated from the University in the class of 1925. His dignity makes up for what it loses in not being paraded through the Herald sport columns on a "by-line" by the fact that he has an office of notorious hospitality in the Cambridge Savings Bank Building. If the mere possession of an office with all rent paid is not sufficient to prove Dick a thoroughly good correspondent, let it be mentioned that...
...Yale has come up from behind during the past weeks and has won brilliant victories. Last week's encounter with Princeton must have taken something out of them, however, and if we go at them tomorrow hammer and tongs I think Harvard will stand a good chance...
...Anderson Bridge; and North Harvard Street, Brighton, as far as Western Avenue, will be closed to traffic. The Stadium gates will be opened at 12.30 o'clock. There will be no tickets sold for public parking within Soldiers Field; the H. A. A. has developed instead a playing field behind the Business School with a capacity of 7000 cars, which will be open for general parking. The only entrance to this space will be on Western Avenue...
...glance at the index which lies behind the thirty chapters of America Finding Herself will largely reveal the method of the book. All the authors, actors, books that influenced people or interested them 20 years ago are written down under separate headings. Twenty-three of the games that children used to play are listed by name. Under the heading "Plays," there are 104 titles; under "Songs...
...Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school boy put on great, softly-padded boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark two-minute rounds; teachers acted...