Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alert, fingered their watches. Up the river, belching like twin-snouted dragons, sloshing along at an uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
...Pennant Race. In the American League, the Philadelphia "Athletics" are so far ahead of the New York "Yankees" that they appear almost certain winners. Last year Connie Mack (Cornelius Mc-Gillicuddy) 66-year-old manager of the Athletics, just missed winning the pennant, probably lost it by starting the season with oldsters Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins in his lineup.† About the middle of the season, Manager Mack put in youngsters, made up much lost ground. This year he has had his youngsters-notably Jimmy Foxx, Gordon Cochrane, Al Simmons-in action all year, and with superlative...
...office buildings are using 14,-000 tons of structural steel. . . . General picking up in the building industry. . . . Automobiles expecting a 5,200,000 1929 production. . . . Production is expected to slacken during the next three months, but it can be 18% below 1929's second quarter and still be ahead of 1928's third quarter...
...Farm Board and having a hard time finding someone satisfactory to the varying shades of political opinion in that major branch of husbandry. When Chairman Legge accepted his appointment, he was in a Kansas wheat field, watching the progress of the harvest, pondering the great problem that lay ahead of his Board...
...crack of the gun Frank Wykoff, whom Charlie ("World's Fastest Human") Paddock picked as winner, was first out of his holes. He led at 20, 30, 40 yards. Bracey drew alongside him. They were even at 50 yards. Bracey went ahead, far ahead, led at 60, 70, 80. Russell Sweet drew even at 90, was a foot ahead at 95. Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape...