Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...developments was an announcement last week that Kraft-Phenix would be a unit in a new food company sponsored by the National City Bank. Other companies included were Hershey Chocolate Corp. and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Combined assets of the three exceed $125,000,000, placing the new company ahead of J. P. Morgan's Standard Brands...
...should not be gathered that Harvard suddenly climbed to football, heights in handing Florida a 14 to 0 defeat, but the University players served notice on their three remaining opponents that they have trouble ahead of them. It was a different story altogether from the Dartmouth game. It was a new team, inspired by the return of the regular fullback, Harper, and under the leadership of a new quarterback, Wood, which showed marked improvement in its most apparent weakness, its defense. The much heralded trie of Cawthon, Bethea and Sauls could not produce any real offensive threat against the Crimson...
...gradual spread in the college of the system of general examinations and tutors from a small beginning in one department seventeen years ago to practically all undergraduate work speaks for itself. Carrying ahead the same concept of a liberal education from the undergraduate to the professional field the leaders of the School of Business Administration hope to give further stimulus to those men who are able to go ahead in a definite field of study. From the point of view of the university as a whole the extension of the idea of individual responsibility to the Business School is another...
Logical as was this explanation, followers of the Schulte fortunes wondered if it were not another circumstance in the chain of events that seem to indicate that Schulte prosperity no longer zooms ahead at its onetime remarkable pace...
...World War disrupted the Military Academy more seriously than any previous event in its history. The frenzied preparation that followed our entry swept aside all precedent. The Class of 1917 graduated two months ahead of time, 1918 graduated in August 1917, and 1919, 1920, and 1921 received their commissions in 1918. An unparalleled crisis in the history of West Point was experienced at this time. On November 2, 1918 the fourth Class, which had been at the Academy less than five months, was all that remained of the Corps...