Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought each other until they reached "Cemetery Hill," about four and one-quarter miles along the course. Pounding steadily at the hill, Benjamin was able to increase his lead to about four yards at the top. He then sped down the other side, leaving the exhausted Healy thirty yards behind him. From this point to the finish, the places did not change much...
...remark had reference to the reputation Professor Greg had had as a controversialist. Many years earlier a local reviewer, after interviewing him on the eve of the publication of one of his books, had called him a minotaur who, with his book finished, was wearing his plumed pen gracefully behind his ear. This was journalistic excess, but it was true that Professor Greg had been a formidable antagonist. He was a gentleman, but where fact or a logical inference was concerned, he insisted on the exact truth...
There was a departmental squabble behind the painting and hanging of the portrait and setting up the shelf of books. Both the portrait and the books had been there about ten years. The then, and still, chairman, Allen Briggs, was what is sometimes called an administrator rather than a scholar. Briggs was a dapper man, with a neat dark mustache. One would not have been surprised to learn he was a vice-president of a stocks and bonds company. For the public, or in addressing incoming graduate students, he stressed scholarly achievement; but in the in-fighting, some...
...Hall had said Central Square only, the notice in the paper had mentioned the fire station as an alternative, and this was the fire station; but aside from a few engines, shiny red and rust-free there was nothing here and the only person in sight was this man behind the desk and he was busy...
...cross country team will be fighting for third place today in the Heptagonal Meet at Van Cortlandt Park. Army is a virtual shoe-in, with five juniors who have all run faster than Dyke Benjamin on the New York course; and Navy, second last year, should not be far behind...