Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capitaine Francois Coli you have applied the adjective "late" (TIME, July 18). This is more of your self-sureness, of your typically American wish to be ahead of others - for I well know that you do not know (because no one knows) that Francois Coli is dead...
...Park aristocrats. In its course it sings sentimental ballads, burlesques the Gay Nineties in the lank, laughing person of Eleanor Shaler, stops off at a night club long enough to see a vivid, dramatic voodoo dance in silhouette, trails off into close harmonies and ends up about a mile ahead of anything Times Square has confected this midsummer, with the possible exception of Texas Guinan's Padlocks...
...hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone. Are we backward with Telephoto, Television and all? Since telephone development in America is indisputably far ahead, is it not safe to presume that good and sufficient scientific reasons exist for our present types of telephones? Stationary and desk telephones are especially advantageous for long distance talking. Efficient long distance telephoning is far ahead in America. Telephone people are so busy giving us the best telephone service...
...tying the course record. He clicked off his next round in 72, forcing players with more than the respectable total of 155 out of play. ? His pluperfect form lapsed to mere perfection in a third round of par 73. He finished with another 72, six strokes ahead of two British professionals?Aubrey Boomer and Fred Robson?who had brilliantly equaled the previous tournament record...
Track meets are won on paper, lost on the track. Judged by past performances, the pick of Yale's and Harvard's runners and jumpers were last week far ahead of an Oxford-Cambridge combination-until the day of the meet at Stamford Bridge, England. The worsted was stretched at the finish line of a 100-yard dash and the U. S. men continued in the lead as Al ("Truck") Miller, 200-lb. Harvard sprinter, charged in ahead of Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races...