Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead of the Gestapo or secret police. With supreme audacity the Freedom Station opened up in the early morning, broadcast as a straight news bulletin that the Allies had just agreed to an 18-day armistice, that the "Chamberlain-Churchill Cabinet" had resigned, that King George VI had abdicated and that...
...year ahead of Lupien on the minor league ladder leading to Boston is one Paul Campbell, plucked off the North Carolina campus. Campbell spent last year in Louisville and did a corking job at first base. Then, of course, there is always a fellow named Foxx on hand when the Back Bay Bombers trek south for the opening practices...
...movements and pauses of the eyes of a skilled reader, the poor reader is made to pace his eyes so as to acquire the eye movements of the superior reader. The rate of projection of the phrases upon the screen is gradually increased, always keeping just a little ahead of the reader...
...considerable expansion in the ranks of associate professors. While there was no mention of the matter, this suggestion carried with it the inescapable implicit assumption that many of the increased number of associate professors could never be advanced--that they would have to be appointed without predictable vacancies ahead of them. In view of this, President Conant could easily have appointed the men in question to permanent positions, after having made a few simple salary adjustments. The Committee, in recommending no hasty action, may well have intended this...
...broadcast of Information Please, obediently shut his eyes when he heard Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman ask the guest experts to shut their eyes and tell the color of their ties. The experts knew and the sponsors paid nothing. Mr. Behr, who also knew, hit the car ahead of him, paid...