Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hand in hand with the opening of College classes comes the regular operation of Freshman athletics. Football starts ahead of the others, with Coach Neil Stahley's call already in for 2.30 o'clock the afternoon of Registration Day. Sign up at the field and draw your equipment any time after 9 in the morning...
...going on up the stairs, straight ahead we will take a glimpse into the main reading room, which seats approximately 300 people. In the cases along the wall there are textbooks which are in use in students' courses. The special type of blue light is exceedingly "easy on the eyes...
...agreed with the A. F. of M. on a closed shop for musicians in the record industry. The manufacturers have already established in court their right as patent owners to determine how their discs may be used commercially. There was thus little sign of legal squalls ahead when the A. F. of M. last week got the manufacturers to agree that so far as coin machines are concerned, discs may not be used in any place which has ever employed musicians, or any place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however, may not help musicians much because few saloons...
When the New York Yankees returned to New York last week for a series of baseball games with the Washington Senators, they were ten games ahead of the Detroit Tigers and it was generally considered that the Yankees had the American League pennant practically won. But they had just lost three straight games to the feeble Philadelphia Athletics, and the Senators had just stretched a winning streak to eight games. And there was also the problem of Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez...
...sold, his perverse refusal to switch brands once satisfied with the one he has got, resulting in an all-round sales resistance calculated to turn an occidental adman's hair grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian...