Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain in my Sophomore year and was a great man to get along with. He knows a lot about modern football tactics because he and Ralph have been closely connected with the game since they left college. He is quiet, and the kind of man who goes ahead and does something without making a lot of talk about it. He is the type that is a great example to those under him and I'm certain will turn out to be a most inspiring coach...
During the trip Carol neglected to shave before the ingenious folding washstand provided in the individual compartments of all wagons-lits. The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed." They further added to his troubles by wiring ahead for whole platoons of cameramen. At Paris the last wheeze of the air-brakes was drowned amid the boom of flashlight powders...
This decision leaves the Remington Cash Register Co. relatively free to continue as chief and most aggressive competitor to the National Cash Register Co. Other related suits impend.** But the Remington people are going right ahead with their production and sales. Already $1,500,000 has been invested in developing and pushing the Fuller arrangement, of which some 58,000 have already been manufactured. Also 3,000 workmen of the Remington forces can keep their jobs...
...most spectacular per- formance, with the exception of Kane's classic in the relay, was Watters' race in the 1000. The University middle distance star was almost too sick to walk just before the race. He overcame a poor start, and fought every step of the way to shoulder ahead of a Cornell runner on the last turn and finish behind the winning Haggerty...
...primary and intermediate education. President Angell refers to the fact that the American boy, as compared with his British and Continental cousin, somewhere loses about two years. The graduate of a French lycee at the age of sixteen years, for example, is in scholastic attainment about two years ahead of American youth of the same age. Indirectly this is in part the effect of conditions that no one would wish to see duplicated in America, such as military service, economic pressure, and extreme standardization of instruction. There is also in America a cult of play and sport that contributes both...