Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...parallel to this can be found by taking the case of a man in business. He enlists or is drafted into the service. When he returns, his old position is waiting for him. That is the job he knows. He isn't suddenly pushed ahead without further experience. What a business concern does, the University is doing. She is welcoming back her sons in their old positions, not shoving them forward to ones which would be unfair both to them and herself...
...pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke of the value of the classics, and said that although they were too much neglected now, the war would bring us to a fuller realization of the worth, not so much...
Tech. Eight Months Ahead...
...that the class of 1918 was graduated last January, and the class of 1919 received their degrees ten days ago, and almost all of its members are already in the service. Thus, Technology has been able to place well grounded engineers at the disposal of the country eight months ahead of the regular time...
...strange, unfriendly street again. Of course in time it will become homelike as any habitat of needs must. But now it is a lonesome sort of place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days of airy breathing, then like a sudden gale came the drive and our retreat. Clothes didn't come off anywaysoever...