Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resplendent marble-pillared courtroom of the Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. rose to their feet. At the same instant, the nine Justices who had been awaiting the cue for their entrance, filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
Although it took no racing start, Patrick Henry's boat was able to keep in the running, trailing Wilson's 150-pound shell at the finish line by a length and a half. The other shells finished closely behind only a few yards apart...
...this, the sixth in the Guardian's fall series of radio programs, the Harvard government authority summed up present English diplomacy as one of waiting. waiting, while the Empire grows steadily stronger behind her, and Mussolini and Hitler are wooed by economic arguments behind each other's backs...
Harvard as you probably have heard, has a nasty habit of sneaking up behind other institutions and luring away their best faculty men with large salaries. The other colleges suffer, but Harvard gains. You realize this after you begin to attend classes here. Every professor I have stands near the top in his field and instead of being dull as many experts, every one of them is interesting...
...miscellaneous herd of 8,000 goats, cows, oxen, horses to be nudged and nursed through the wilderness, it moved like an ambling village, its scouts fanned out before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under...