Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pounds lighter and five inches shorter than the old army pattern Lewis gun, is gas-operated and air-cooled. There are two interchangeable barrels, so that if one overheats after a period of rapid firing, the other can be slipped in place in 20 seconds. With two men behind it, one feeding, the Bren can fire about 600 rounds a minute...
...dancing girls than he did to him, Confucius resigned in disgust. The next 17 years, followed by 100 disciples, he spent looking for another job. He did not find one, mainly because Chinese lords mistrusted his honesty, once because he refused to play up to a smart mistress behind the throne. Typical of the topical way Confucius coined his maxims was the crack he delivered on this occasion. "I have never known anyone," declared the sage, "who will work so hard on behalf of virtue as for a beautiful face...
...most popular novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, adds up through its many reprintings to 750,000. As in most Zane Grey stories, much of the action in Raiders of Spanish Peaks depends on somebody overhearing somebody else-apparently in the old West there was an eavesdropper crouching behind every clump of sage brush. Also like most Zane Grey stories, the newest one begins with a bang. Hiding out after killing a man, tall, grey-eyed Laramie Nelson observes some gunmen ride into his grove, tie a rope around the neck of a 20-year- old cowboy and throw...
...Behind a high wind, the Freshman division of the Yacht Club dropped a close decision to the dinghy delegations of Dartmouth and M.I.T. The score was Dartmouth 43, Tech 41, and Harvard...
After taking the mile race in 4 min., 18.2 sec., ahead of his teammate Gene Clark, inspired Northrop returned for the half. Congdon of Yale was never a threat to Harvard's leader in this distance, for the Blue ace was left far behind when Northrop started sprinting the last lap to break both the meet and Harvard records with 1 min., 52.3 seconds...