Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour and ten minutes later Meredith came to the post for the half mile. At the crack of the gun Floto, of Princeton, got away into the lead. At the first turn Meredith's tremendous strides pulled him ahead with Floto falling back and Bingham close at his heels. As the pistol sounded the end of the first lap, Bingham forged ahead of Floto, and chased Meredith down the straightaway...
Down the final stretch the chest of the sturdy Penn runner showed a yard and then two yards, ahead. The Red and Blue broke the worsted a yard and a half before the Crimson-jerseyed athete. The time of 1 minute, 53 seconds, set a new intercollegiate mark. Bingham's time, 1-5 of a second slower, still stands as the Harvard record...
...found that the material was positively interesting and had a spicy newsiness that compelled admiration. My present attitude is of such a nature that I will only say "go ahead and do as you please, you are to be depended upon to be very nearly right...
...Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket (with coat swung back), hid his left hand behind him and gazed seriously, straight ahead. Secretary Hubert Work (Interior), but for whose mustache and Secretary Mellon's this would be the first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang...
...glories of intercollegiate hockey revived last night when two sextets of Harvard and Dartmouth alumni fought and frolicked on the Arena ice for 45 minutes giving themselves and those attending the St. Moritz Carnival an evening of uproarious run. When they added up the score, the Harvard graduates were ahead...