Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury able to do so? It was explained that a drive by the Internal Revenue Bureau had brought in an unexpected $100,000,000 of back taxes, that customs receipts were $20,000,000 ahead of expectations and that income taxes were expected to furnish $80,000,000 more than was anticipated earlier in the year?in all receipts were increased...
...tabulations of the leading Crimson players in the various departments of the game show that Zarakov, veteran third sacker, has cornered most of the leading numbers. Breaking his tie with Captain Todd for the greatest number of hits, he has forged ahead with 26 to his credit on the score books. He has passed Sullivan since last week in the number of times he has crossed the rubber with a counter, having amassed a total of 20 runs, one sixth of the total number that has been scored by the Crimson this year. He has proved himself the fleetest member...
...none of these. The horse that swept under the barrier as smoothly as a cob out for its morning canter, five lengths ahead of Lancegay, which ran second, was a horse owned by James Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...
Boat Club. He sat in the Cornell varsity eights of 1908 and 1909, went to Portland highly recommended. His Harvard crew did badly last year. This season it has competed in two regattas, beaten Princeton, and (last week) finished second to the navy, but ahead of Cornell...
...first and second innings, he pitched shut-out ball after that until removed for a pinchhitter in the Harvard half of the eighth. Against Brown in the opening game, he relieved Cutts in the seventh and blanked the Bears to gain credit for the victory after Harvard forged ahead behind his pitching in the last two frames...