Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unheralded Georgetown freshman came from behind to defeat A.H. Miller '27, star University sprinter, in the 60 yard dash at the games of the New York Athletic Club in Madison Square Garden last night...
...been that of able lawyer and farmer's-friend, Congressman Dickinson of Iowa.* Whoever it was, word was passed that the House farm bloc would vote for a coal-crisis bill. Then the farm bloc offered to block the coal-crisis bill if the coal operators' congressmen would get behind their favorite farm bill and push. Closed. Silence shrouded coal while from one end of the capital to the other a fanfare of political trumpets echoed the groans of the suffering farmer...
...idol may be tomorrow's rubbish. In Trelawny the downfall of the old timers is the essential motif. But in the revival the audience showed that it had not forgotten its old favorites. John Drew (Vice Chancellor), now 73, was cheered mightily when he first looked from behind his newspaper in the second act. Mrs. Whiffen, 83, a nice old lady, was greeted with prolonged applause. The world still loves its illusions...
...history of mankind and of its progress. The Empire succeeded the Republic, Nationalism succeeded Feudalism: Democracy succeeded Absolutism. Out of a broom and an old hat the forces of reaction created a scarecrow for the target of their energy while the sweep of-history caught them from behind unawares...
...Fuller '30,--who was taken in the same wagon to the Brattle Square station, was arrested while standing under a Yard gate. He was hit on the head from behind, and dragged in a dazed condition to the patrol wagon. At the station he refused to give his name to anyone but the desk sergeant. He was seized by three patrolmen, dragged to the hall, and while two of them held his arms, a third knocked him unconscious with a fist blow to the face...