Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Ways and Means Committee of the House drove ahead and practically completed the tax bill which it will offer to the House early in December. The preparation of the bill was almost a record for speed and efficiency. The reason for this unusual procedure was simple; the Democrats on the Committee cooperated in drafting the bill instead of trying to oppose every proposition put forward by the majority. It is one of the few important bills in recent years aside from War measures, which the opposition party, whether Democratic or Republican, has not tried...
...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...
...became a member of similar associations formed in Baseball and Football. The climax of the Rowing Association was reached in 1875, when 13 college crews contested at Saratoga. It is on record that Yale took one first place, Harvard second twice, but, with one exception, Harvard secured a place ahead of her rival Yale, in the four contests during the existence of this Association. In 1876 a radical change from six to eight-oared crews was adopted. Harvard and Yale rowed by themselves, and up to this time the departures then made have been adhered...
Coach Fisher was given a tremendous ovation when he rose to speak. "Let bygones be bygones," he said, "We're looking ahead...
...Duchess in her sleek, silent motor sped ahead of them to Curzon House, Curzon Street, Mayfair. As the brawny packers unpacked, she gazed approvingly about her at the comfortable Georgian spaciousness of her new winter home. Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...