Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...38th hole by C. Ross Somerville of the London (Ont.) Hunt Club. George H. ("Porky") Flynn of Pittsburgh, a familiar young figure on Long Island links, passed away before Don Carrick of Toronto in the next round, 2 down. Carrick and Somerville were the finalists, the former spurting steadily ahead...
London bankers and British Government officials are, for this reason, looking ahead to the coming autumn season with considerable anxiety. Thus far it has not been so much of a feat to keep sterling at its gold par with the dollar. But the real test of Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill's bold step in resuming gold payments this spring (TIME, May 11, COMMONWEALTH) will come this fall. Hitherto, Britain has not been forcd by her assumption of the full gold standard to export much gold -in fact, if anything, she has imported the yellow metal on balance from...
...surface that does not move with the wind. Thus, the forward surface of a rotorship's cylinder being made to move into the wind - i. e., clockwise into a starboard wind, counterclockwise to a larboard jwind-suction is strongest on that forward surface and the ship is drawn ahead...
...axiom used to be that there were only three important textile fibres-wool, cotton and silk. Since the War, the new artificial fibre "rayon" has forged ahead so rapidly that it has already passed silk in point of production, and now looms as a dangerous competitor to wool and cotton. In 1924, world output of cotton was 9,000 million pounds; of wool, 2,600 million pounds; of rayon, between 100 and 125 million pounds. Rayon production for 1925 is estimated at 150 to 200 million pounds, with steady growth ahead...
Washington quickly pulled ahead and maintained the lead for three quarters of the course. The U. S. Naval Academy's crew followed closely, gradually pulled even, finally won by a length. Washington was second; Wisconsin, third; Pennsylvania, fourth; Syracuse, fifth; Cornell, sixth; Columbia, seventh...