Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begins a vigil that lasts till dawn. Motoring through the mountains you come to these eyes one by one, 10 to 25 miles apart. They are searchlights and all night they sweep the sky in steady circles, their narrow shafts swinging around heaven from anchorages on hilltops. For miles ahead you watch one, catching its brief flash as the beam swings high over your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass, and see a fainter arm of light waving over the hills ahead...
Similar lighthouses mark other routes, besides the 900 air-miles between New York and Chicago. From the air, a pilot can see his dark course plotted out 100 miles ahead by luminous, moving asterisks...
Armour was a few strokes behind through the early rounds. On the 524 yard 13th on his final round he put a brassie on the green and holed the putt for a 3. This eagle threw him ahead of the field, and as he finished in careful figures, won the title. Leo Diegel and Billy Burke, Greenwich, Conn., broke the course record with 68, five under par. The first Canadian to finish was Andy Kay, Lambton. eleventh...
...purpose is to represent my country to Canada, and at the same time I hope to get an insight into your attitude toward the empire. I've got a strenuous tour ahead of me. What we in Europe value most in the New World is that sense of hope which we get when we come here...
...this battle for records and for the National A. A. U. one-mile championship, Miss Norelius was seldom more than a muscular forearm ahead of her teammate, Ethel McGary of the Women's Swimming Association of New York...