Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps with some doubt as to what you many finally do with us and to us, but at least with firm convictions that your activities will save life .from becoming very monotonous. And, besides, we realize that if we did not give you our confidence, you would go ahead without...
...said, "but it's not the 500 that we want. You fellows each ought to bring out a friend, and if you can get 400 men out I'll guarantee we'll beat Yale. As it is, they've got the edge on paper, but we're going straight ahead, and I'll say right now, our chances are brighter than for several years to have a championship track team...
...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 famine; here were rocks ahead and stark fear on the faces of the crew...
...density varied, as it always does in London, depending upon the locality. In places people could see 15 feet ahead; in others, men and women moved forward using their hands as antennae, like insects. Comparatively few accidents were reported ; the major inconvenience, it seemed, was postponement of the annual Oxford and Cambridge soccer match...
...football, the answering chorus is, 'Oh well, but how could we expect a poor foreigner to under stand our national game?' ... I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them on the campus ... Of course I know the usual answer; the cheering crowds, the gay sights, the strong virile hemen, idolizing the even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future...