Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Begg: "Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from Texas is so ungentlemanly as to do that, he may go ahead...
...boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead at the mile mark. The Harvard stroke got faster, the Harvard shell moved up, half a length behind, to even terms, and-at the finish-a quarter of a length ahead...
...Crimson shell succeeds in pulling across the finish line ahead of its rivals today it will be the third successive year that it has triumphed in this triangular affair. The Big Three 150-pound regatta was instituted in 1922 and has been held annually since that time...
...Junior oarsmen then put up the stroke and showing unexpected reserve, pulled ahead of the rival craft to win by feet. The time of 9 minutes, 44 seconds was slower than either crew's best on account of the rough conditions on the last half of the course...
Thompson and Clark, who had come up with Warner, left ahead of the others, travelling on houseback to Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored...