Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington's famed Japanese cherry trees burst into bloom days ahead of time as the President welcomed his son to No. 15 Dupont Circle. President Coolidge's son John was home from Amherst for a ten-day spring vacation. ¶ At noon, one day last week, at the executive offices at the White House, the President formally received the members of the musical clubs of his alma mater, Amherst. At teatime, Mrs. Coolidge and son John received them informally at No. 15 Dupont Circle; in the evening, applauded them generously from a box in Continental Hall. President Coolidge...
...wheels, and Samuel Knopf Sr. to inspect and supervise as business manager, Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops and Negro poets, Clarence Darrow and Ernest Boyd, a barber, a Mormon. The circulation steamed steadily ahead-42,614 at the end of 1924; 62,323 in 1925; to its peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed," as Mr. Mencken describes them, they open at once...
...crews were nearly on even terms. Going under the Harvard Bridge, three-quarters of a mile from the start, Crew A and Crew C, stroked by Norton, were neck and neck, with Crew D, with, Hall setting the pace, half a length behind. Slowly, however, the eventual winners pulled ahead. From the Henley mark to the finish the distance widened, until at the end Crew A was a length and a quarter ahead of Crew C, with Crew B trailing Norton's boat by a similar margin...
...spite of the light head wind the two crews rowed well and the race was close until the last quarter mile, when De Normandie raised the beat so effectively that his crew forged ahead to a decisive victory...
Laymen despaired, but the researchers plodded ahead with tasks which very much resembled the work done nowadays by government surveyors. The continent is outlined; its lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, state and county boundaries are mapped. But here remains a pond, a creek, the slope and extent of a watershed, the soil character of an unsettled valley, whose position and specifications need determining...