Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the flapping winds that flew ahead of the hurricane (see p. 14) circled into Boston Harbor, an ugly coal boat, the Black Point, broke away from the two tugs that were warping her away from the pier. Plunging across the dark and angry waters, the Black Point rammed her broad bow into a schooner which was straining at her moorings like a slim black horse There occurred then in the darkness a scene as gruesome as a murder: the collier leaning her weight against the trembling sailboat rammed her against the army base pier which slices into the harbor...
...time alike of retrospection and of prospection. People look back and see that their cash accounts have been ridiculously handled; that their time gas been wanted here and there, and that such treasured ideals as Efficiency and Purpose have gone to the damnation bow-wows. And then they look ahead and make resolutions. Those holes in the trouser pockets shall be sewed up, and the old gentleman with the hour-glass and the sickle shall march more properly in time to the music. This above all; everybody will henceforward be true to his purpose. Everybody has a purpose of course...
...There were 76 members of the Band at the last Yale game appearance," continued Holland. "We will raise this total as high as a hundred if possible and pass well ahead of Yale, Princeton, Columbia and other Eastern college bands. Since most of the men who played last season are returning, our expectations should not be disappointed...
Click! The automatic lifebelt release on the Captain's bridge hurled a belt, coated with luminous paint, into the darkness. Click! The Captain's controller whirled from Full Speed Ahead to Full Speed Astern. Twenty-eight thousand figurative horses stopped galloping forward, galloped backward. Click, click, click! The powerful searchlights of the Augustus were switched on; and, as she stopped, lifeboats were lowered from whirring davits...
Eastbound: Leave Minneapolis at 8:30 a. m., St. Paul at 8:40 a. m.; arrive Chicago at 12:10 p. m. The first eastbound plane landed at Chicago 40 minutes ahead of schedule...