Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful drive by the Jersey-men at the mile marked failed to gain any ground and they fell behind the Engineers. Different from their splashing contestants the Crimson blades kept the stroke down until the last minute when a snappy leg drive at 36 jumped the Bolles boat into a lead of a length and a half of open water...
...mile run was the best performance of Northrop's career. Dogged by successive cases of illness he has seldom had an even chance to fulfill expectations. In last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet he approached his worth when he did 4:19 behind Godfrey Brown. But Saturday was the best of all when he crossed the finish line five yards ahead of Rhode Island's Stan Holt. Northrop's right shoe came off at the beginning of the last quarter...
...also called Poet Eberhart "wet behind the ears," which means that he is young and docs not think and plan sufficiently. This is impossible as Eberhart spent about seven years writing this book, therefore it must be thought and planned sufficiently...
TIME described Poet Eberhart's verse, not Poet Eberhart, as "wet behind the ears," imputed to him the natural gifts as well as the verbal excesses of "a genuine ham poet...
...first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees for a brief separate...