Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when Examiner Lindsay cut him short: "Go ahead and object. Your objection is overruled...
...enter Paris 1937 is the hopefully green Peace Tower at the gate formed by the two great marble wings of the new Trocadero Palace, this to be a permanent structure housing Paris art exhibits of the highest class. From it visitors descend broad steps with the Eiffel Tower rising ahead of them across the Seine, on their left the massive German pavilion with its brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt is a heavy splash...
...four races. Races are 30 mi. each, alternating between 1) a straight course into the wind & back and 2) a course around an equilateral triangle with ten-mile sides. Last week, after spectators had delayed the start 45 min., Ranger and Endeavour crossed the line, with Endeavour a length ahead but Ranger well to windward. The breeze was light and the boats' job was to work 15 mi. into it, round a buoy and run back before the wind to the line they had just crossed...
...picked up speed, and both sailed off on a long port tack. Sopwith smartly changed Endeavour's head-sails but when he began to catch up, Vanderbilt changed Rangers. About halfway to the buoy, when both boats went about for the second time. Ranger was half a mile ahead...
Second Race, around a triangle consisting of a ten-mile beat against a mild southwesterly breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...