Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time I saw nobody else. There were 20 men in the officers' quarters (where the submarine was struck). I rushed to the ladder of the conning tower. There were two men ahead of me. Water was already splashing when I got to the top. I was washed overboard as soon as I got out. I was picked up by a lifeboat of the City of Rome, which . . . steamed away for Boston in forty-five minutes...
...usually sit on the aisle side of the seat. Just before the trains reach Ossining station there is a platform at the base of gray rock bastions which tower above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through a short tunnel as the burlies usher their charges off the platform into Sing Sing, New York's famed state penitentiary...
...three mile bridge at Poughkeepsie, 40,000 people observed that the Huskies were a scant length ahead; at three and three-quarter miles, Navy whistles screamed that the shells were even; then the oars of "Rusty" Callow's men pushed back the Hudson river sufficiently to heave one-quarter length of the Washington shell across the finish line first. After the Navy came Syracuse, Penn, Columbia, California, Wisconsin, Cornell, in glittering procession...
...Treasury's big financial problem lies ahead. It has the usual debts maturing in future months, $415,000,000 in September, $356,000,000 in December and $668,000,000 in March (1927). The big future operation is the refunding of $2,568,000,000 of the third Liberty Loan bonds, which fall due all together in September, 1928. Some of the third Liberties will undoubtedly be bought up in the market before that date...
Otherwise unlike her father, William Jennings Bryan, she does resemble him, however, in her taste for political carnage. Recently she entered the battle for a Florida Congressional -representativeship, and the struggle was mighty, for at its end the count showed that her opponent, Congressman Sears, was ahead by 426 votes out of 40,500 cast. Mrs. Owen asked a recount...