Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fictitious and ephemeral basis, or has it a message of permanent vitality and worth? This question, however, can seldom be answered in the lifetime of the worker and still less frequently in that of the creative artist, it being an attribute of genius to be ahead of its own day and generation. Assuming that the chief works of Beethoven have stood the test of time, have retained their power to quicken and to exalt, and waiving the aspersions of those extremists who consider Beethoven "vieux jeu"--his achievements soon to be engulfed in the rising tide of "modernity...
...cockpit. At 7:52 a. m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a gully were ahead. Then his plane took the air, cleared the tractor, the gully; cleared some telephone wires. Five hundred onlookers believed they had witnessed a miracle. It was a miracle of skill...
...Instruments. Over and over again "Lucky" had repeated that his "luck" had consisted chiefly in a faultless motor, a periscope by which he watched ahead without exposure, and in an earth induction compass by which alone he steered to a point within three miles of his theoretic arrival point in Ireland...
...Crimson crews, the University and the Seconds, pulled out for New York State last night and will row on Lake Cayuga this morning and afternoon in preparation for the race tomorrow. The eights realize that they have a hard task ahead of them at Ithaca. Cornell boast eight of the most powerful oarsmen in the East and two miles is their distance...
Other regulars maintained more consistent averages, gaining or losing only a few points in the week's engagements. H. W. Burns '28 now holds third place in the batting race. He advanced two points to 310, and stands three points ahead of W. W. Lord '28, whose 307 figure is just one better than his last week's average. J. P. Chase '28, who has broken in as regular left fielder since Lord has been shifted to first base, is the only other regular above the 300 deadline, with an average...