Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Class B. singles with a long entry list has been progressing slowly. Most of the matches are now in the third round. Joshua Sands Jr. '29, H. W. Rubsamen '29, and Edward Swift '30 have advanced into the fourth round ahead of the rest of the field...
...Farms, Mass., I had to sit docilely while my portrait was being painted. It is not done yet. I became impatient, demanded: 'How long will this continue? I have something else to do.' Then my wife told the painter: 'Pay no attention to him. Go right ahead and take as long as you like. If he were not here with you he would be over there in the corner reading naughty French novels...
...that would have run him down; went on his way, smiling with relief; started to cross another street, leaped again, landed on the running board of another assaulting car, his knuckles accidently crashing into the driver's jaw. "I'll have you arrested," shouted the driver. "Go ahead," grunted Mr. Steinberg, "I'm lucky I should be able to be arrested...
...then drives home. He terms it "the meaning of No Man's Land." "When Jules Verne first wrote about submarines and electric rifles," he says, "and all those things, the people of his day thought he was crazy as they think us now. We've been jerked as far ahead as he was. We've been wasting our energy cursing because people won't wake up and see. Verne didn't. He went on writing--and we used his submarines!.. One of these days everybody will know the meaning of No Man's Land. Its time evolution, the pace...
...Utah the nominating convention is still used instead of the direct primary. -Mr. Smith's only defeat for the governorship came in 1920 when Judge Nathan L. Miller was elected in the Harding landslide by a majority of 74,000, even though Mr. Smith ran a million votes ahead of the Democratic national ticket. tStandard gold bullion is worth $223.20 per pound. -Recently reorganized under the name of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, with John W. Davis at its head. Its history dates back beyond the days when Grover Cleveland was a member...