Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd to follow. First, Purdue's forward, Johnny Sines, drove through the Minnesota defense for a close-up shot that put his side three points ahead. Then Minnesota's Kundla took the ball at the backboard, dribbled down the court floor, stumbled, recovered, and made an incredible shot that all but canceled Purdue's advantage. A moment later, both were ready for the centre toss when the game ended with the referee...
...valley 125 miles south of Fairbanks, had come to life. Its mile-and-a-quarter face was shoving toward the Delta River and the Richardson Highway (sole motor road from Fairbanks to the coast), rearing ice crests to 500 ft., breaking off great land icebergs which tumbled thunderously ahead onto the mossy valley floor...
...little tormentor's hand, crushed it nearly to bits. George managed to get them out of that scrape, but when Lennie accidentally broke the floozy's neck, there was only one thing George could do to remedy that. Knowing where Lennie was hiding, George got to him ahead of the posse, got trusting Lennie to turn his head while he shot him behind...
...question could be agreed upon. In a conference, this mattered little, because interchange of ideas, not decisions, was the objective. But in government, these same problems were met every day and demanded immediate decision and action. Those upon whose shoulders such responsibility rests dare not look at the problems ahead with such careful scrutiny for fear that the difficulties which present themselves would freeze the spectator into inaction...
With the lead changing hands ten times, the game was filled with excitment for the crowd of 3000 spectators. Despite the Crimson's opening scoring streak, Yale forged slowly ahead to lead by three points at the half. But with the opening of the second period, Gray dropped a field goal and then sunk a penalty shot to tie the score...