Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Edvin Wide, onetime Swedish schoolteacher, met Lloyd Hahn of Boston in a special one-mile race at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Wide, conqueror of Nurmi, had freely predicted that he would lower the world's record for the event, leave Hahn thoroughly behind in the operation...
Frank Wilson, National League umpire of fiery temperament, unused to Cobb's technique, was calling balls and strikes in the game- an exhibition contest between the Boston National and Philadelphia American teams. He showed signs of being irritated by the monologue behind...
...German field guns rumbled and infantry tramped through Bertry Village, watched from behind drawn shutters by Mme. Belmont-Gobert and many another. Soon a fist knocked at her door, and 16 German soldiers were billeted in her house. Only the living-room was left to Mme. Belmont-Gobert. Then, after the soldiers had clumped out to forage for dinner, a light tap came at her back door. With fearful, hungry eyes, a British trooper, Patrick Fowler, asked Mme. Belmont-Gobert to hide and succor...
...lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...
...tails of the Chicago lions stick out straight behind them; the New York tails are limp...