Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July Trapper Courtois was brought back to Roberval by some fire rangers, so weak he could scarcely guide his canoe. In midwinter, he said, he had sent his boys ahead to their base camp with 50 pounds of flour, a moose flank and half a beaver while he made a side trip to lay a line of traps 100 miles away. The winter was bitter. Trapper Courtois was stormbound, nearly frozen to death. When he reached the base camp weeks later his two boys were gone. Frantically he searched for them. At last, nearly starved, he had been forced...
...third. The crisis, which Tilden had often arranged in the past for its histrionic effect, suddenly became an actuality, frightening and consequential. The gallery, which had been applauding Doeg, changed sides and clapped for Tilden. Doeg, like all the younger players, was so surprised at being really ahead of Tilden that he started double-faulting, lost the fourth and fifth sets...
...ship" off somehow. Or rather, the "ship" got itself off. He could see groups of cadets and "monitors" ahead down the field break and run for the fences as he came tearing toward them-probably zigzagging every which way-"craziest 'solo' in history!" Just couldn't get the "ship" headed straight. They called it a "ship"! It felt more like a slithering shingle...
Detour, construction ahead! or--pass at your own risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes...
...line which has been working ahead of these ball-carrying veterans is even more of a nature to lead to the belief that there is something definitive about the selection of an early season first team. All the trusted linemen of last year who have returned for the present campaign are to be found in this forward wall. The ends are J. G. Douglas '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, both lettermen, the tackles Captain J. E. Barrett '30 and F. S. Davis '30, the former one of the outstanding tackles of last year and the latter a veteran...