Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England singles ranking the University is represented by three graduates and one undergraduate. N. W. Niles '09 leads all others except L. B. Rice of Newton, a Yale graduate who is rated slightly ahead...
...motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...
Thought I had found the quintessence of perfection in a review so well-conceived, excellently put-together and in all ways so far ahead of anything else that it has all the others backed off the board...
...great storm arose. Heaven tipped crazily, the long seas towered and swept by. Huddled below decks, the faculty of Novorossiisk University and their families cried out prayers as they were dashed back and forth across the saloon. Ashore there was a famine; here were rocks ahead and stark fear on the faces of the crew...
...stockmarket, which has lately been the band ahead of the Business Prosperity Parade, a purely technical reaction has occurred. Meanwhile, industrial and commercial news continues to grow more favorable. Commodity prices at wholesale are experiencing a sharp rise. Gasoline is being marked up. The steel industry is operating at about 85% capacity, while other metallic industries are doing well. Automobile companies, despite keen competition, anticipate good business this coming year. Except for a handful of roads, among them the St. Paul, the railroad outlook is singularly good. Moreover, the absence of sensation in business at present is a sign...