Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, day after Labor Day , Chicago's public schools were due to open one week ahead of time because the Board of Education, performing a Chicago miracle; discovered in its kitty an extra $900,000 which could pay salaries of its often unpaid teachers for the extra week. Five days before the scheduled opening, Chicago's schools made unexpected news when Board President James B. McCahey announced that they would remain "indefinitely closed" because of a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis (see p. 35). President McCahey's order brought much pleasure to the city...
...guests could hardly wait for the end of the luncheon and the end of boredom to edge closer to the Royal Presence. But no - when it was over the Prince suggested visiting Dr. Wieland's office. This suggestion alarmed Professor George Eaton and he hurriedly sneaked on ahead to see what could be done about achieving some kind of order out of the monumental chaos and dustiness of the paleobotanist's room. Very little had been accomplished when the cycad-lovers arrived, trailed by the President of the university and his fuming committee. It was a little difficult...
...spectators, Hurdler Towns and Tommy Roberts (ridden by Private Marvin Henry) raced. Hurdler Towns ran off to a long, early lead. Between the fourth and fifth hurdles he stepped in a hole, was thrown off stride. Tommy Roberts came on rapidly. Over the last hurdle Towns squeezed ahead to break the tape, but mainly because Tommy Roberts tried to jump it. The result: Hurdler Towns by a nose in 13 sec. flat. Said he: "I'll take two-footed racers in the future...
Thus at the beginning of each college year Harvard turns to her incoming Freshmen, just as the Freshmen turn to her. For on their shoulders rests the future. But for the moment the prospect of four bright years ahead seems secure. And so engraved over one of the gates of the Yard is the inscription, "Enter to grow in wisdom...
...spite of these breaks, the team went ahead with the full confidence of the college behind it. It won the two opening games, but after the Army power machine had rolled over, there was little enough left. Again Dick Harlow started at the beginning, again there was drill on fundamentals, again confidence had sunk...