Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Much? The Administration thinks that, the tax reduction should be gauged by the expected Treasury surplus. What this is expected to amount to is $250,000,000 or $300,000,000. The Democrats eager to be ahead of the Administration began to talk of a tax cut of $600,000,000. How is it to be done? By the simple process of paying off the national debt less rapidly than at present. Every year a large sum is set aside for amortizing the public debt-enough so that the War debt will be paid off in about 25 years...
...Nash and Daley, considered regulars till the Holy Cross game, are in uniform, neither is likely to start against Dartmouth. Daley is not in the best of condition yet and C. H. Bradford, his substitute, has proved to be a strong acquisition to the line. Pratt apparently has got ahead of Nash in their race for a first team rating...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
Last week the common stock of S. S. Kresge & Co. (five and ten cent stores) began to climb, to leap ahead, now five points, now ten points, like an excited tree-toad. Before the week was over it stood at $705, an advance of 46 points a share...
...next play, Crawford, scrub quarter, shot a high pass intended for Strong, who was, however, well covered by a University back. Neither Strong nor the back secured the toss, but Hayne, scrub center, recovered the ball before it touched the ground and with a clear field ahead, covered the remaining distance to the goal-line. Braden kicked the goal...