Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down at Linden Street there are too many squash enthusiasts and too few courts. Everyone has to sign up a day ahead of time to be sure of But twelve more courts every half hour will greatly relieve the pressure. Moreover, since the new courts will all be regulation size, the important matches can be played on them without disconcerting the opponents because the courts are a foot too long or a half a foot too wide...
...follow the Army game. Having been informed that an agreement existed, Leverett House cancelled its plans and announcements. Several days later it became apparent that no such agreement had been made in the meeting; and Leverett, since it had contracts to fulfill on the dance, decided to go ahead even at this late date. This involved the loss of valuable time in the preparation of the dance, confusion in the minds of the undergraduates, and a probable loss to the Leverett House fund...
...never neutral" had been a strict Lorimer policy, the New Deal brought out his Republican individualism. In 1934 his ordinarily innocuous editorial page began to sputter and fume about "Who is Going to Pay?", "Roads to Nowhere." But Satevepost profits, unlike those of many other New Deal haters, surged ahead. Publisher Curtis had turned over Satevepost and Curtis Publishing Co. in its entirety to Mr. Lorimer in 1932, and when Lorimer retired at the beginning of this year he left the Curtis house well in order...
...radio track. The airliner passed Rock Springs on time at 8:16 p.m., flying normally at 180 m.p.h. Two days later it was found 17 miles off its course-to the left-wrecked on a snowcovered side of a mountain (see cut), both engines and 18 occupants flung far ahead of the ship, Only one passenger tangled in the smashed plane. Time of the crash was fixed at 8:51 p.m. which with the liner's position when found, indicated that the pilot had proceeded in a direct line at full speed to the point where he crashed, that...
...rate increase, pleasing as it was to railroads, remains many millions below what they feel they need, and they immediately set about asking for more.* Meanwhile, however, railroad stocks on California exchanges, which had not yet closed when the I.C.C. decision was announced, surged still further ahead on the good news. New York Central closed in San Francisco $1.13 above its New York final sale. Witnessing this, many a Wall Street "market letter" went out that night predicting a thumping bull market in Manhattan next morning. Instead, to the confusion of prophets, railroad stocks and most others fell like...