Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complaint may seem picayune. I find in this week's copy of TIME several pages of advertisements inserted ahead of the reading matter. It looks to me as if TIME, too, is becoming commercialized...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture...
...light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...maximum optimism is still monopolized by realtors. The Florida boom continues, out of season. Recently New York has discovered a new realty boom in its midst at Rockaway, which some believe to be fairly on the way toward rivalling Atlantic City. Building, once far behind demand, is now considerably ahead, according to the statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor, which counsels caution...
Skirting the crowd-freighted western shore, spurting ahead at an incredible pace in the last 50 yards, Algeron Fitzpatrick retained his championship in the senior quarter-mile dash. Four feet behind him came W. E. Garrett Gilmore; and last of all was the baby bug whose fame was chiefly responsible for making 20,000 people stand at the river's edge that hot afternoon-Walter M. Hoover formerly of Duluth, now of the Undine Barge Club of Philadelphia. But he, in the finals of the single sculls, did what he had come to do. His shiny yellow arms dipped...