Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang because he was then unwilling to fight Japan as they thought China should. Last month General Pai became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships in Nanking, General Li went north to command 50,000 troops he had sent ahead from the south to try to stop the Japanese in Shantung. Shantung's Governor, famed General Han Fu-chu whom Japanese have been trying to win over by bribes, thus had to make up his mind last week, clarioned: "I urge all under my command to vow resistance...
...dozens of great fires broke out and Chinese and Japanese shells not aimed at the Settlement screamed over it. there were gruesome accidents. The Chinese motorman of a Shanghai trolley car, seeing that a big bomb was going to land in the street ahead of it, applied his brakes and yelled warnings to his 14 passengers, clanged his bell. An instant later the bomb exploded 20 feet in front of the trolley, blew it to blazes, killing the motorman, all his passengers and some people standing in the street, while other pedestrians who miraculously escaped found their clothes soaked...
...years a great Notre Dame team had been upset by Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech. Last week, an undefeated Notre Dame eleven gained 235 yards by rushing, to Carnegie's seven, made 15 first downs, to Carnegie's two. But at the end stubborn Carnegie Tech was ahead by the margin of a field goal. Score...
...Permission to pass through quarantine without pausing for medical inspection, if the ship doctor radios ahead that he has no serious disease aboard (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...
...Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Next year in convention at New Orleans this same issue boiled over in an action almost unprecedented in A. B. A. history-a hot contest for election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead when he is chosen for the job of second vice president, thence moving up according to custom to vice president and president. At the New Orleans convention two years ago outspoken Orval Webster Adams, executive vice president of Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City and thus a representative...