Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's rails. Disaster whines through the cab window, for the prostrate engineer has not seen the block signal, his throttle yawns unheeded...
What is this? Miraculously the plunging express is slowing down, 50, 40, 30 only 20 miles an hour. But the freight is only half a mile ahead...
Last week Holy Cross toyed with an entirely unknown eleven, and today meet another, St. John's. The purple is looking ahead already to the Harvard contest, October 17, and will use many substitutes in this afternoon's encounter. Like Yale, Holy Cross has an abundance of first-class backfield material,, Glennon, a star two seasons ago, now ranking as third-string halfback...
...clock at the Phillips Brooks House. This reception is usually held on a Wednesday, but this year because of the fact that the University will not hold a formal reception for 1929 tonight, the Phillips Brooks House has shifted the date of their welcome a day ahead...
...more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students, sickly and discouraged boys, was added the brilliant type who sought to escape the lockstep of his former school and get ahead on the double. It was a distinctly successful experiment, as proved by a high record in the college board entrance examinations of the past nine years and a constantly enlarging student body...