Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class teams are for two kinds of men," continued Coach Cheek, "those who want to play football for the fun of it, and those who are looking ahead with a possible view toward winning a berth on the University squad. It is to these latter men in particular that class football offers unique advantages. The opportunities for expert individual coaching in special branches of the game, which after all is the only way to learn, are much better than any where else except possibly on the University squad itself...
...Every year a man spends in college or in graduate work puts him just that much further ahead of the fellow who starts working before he has completed his education," declared Charles Edison, a son of Thomas A. Edison, noted inventor and technical expert in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. In his suite at the Copley-Plaza, Mr. Edison, who is president of the corporation founded by his father, discussed freely his views on education as well as the life and work of his famed progenitor...
...that he seemed to surpass the champion, and the crowd trembled. But the champion had been before in evil straits; he had hammerblows waiting; now, triumphantly, he began to use them. Slowly, remorselessly, he advanced until he was on even terms with his adversary, until he was ahead of him. With one more effort he would conquer. . The crowd quivered. The moment had come...
...Knight patents have until 1934 to run. Then there doubtless will be a scramble of manufacturers who will install this engine. But Mr. Knight, retired at Los Angeles with his royalties ever flowing, has been so improving the mechanism that he can keep his own licensees always ahead of competitors...
...just will not break, through disheartening evenings when one sees the products of a day's endeavors tossed in the waste basket with perhaps a caustic word from the assistant managing editor. There is the thought of other days when one will stumble on a big bit of news ahead of his fellows, ahead perhaps of the Boston papers, when his story will lead the paper with a double column headline and his rivals' offerings will be forced into the waste basket instead. There is a thrill of finding out things other people do not know, things perhaps told...