Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength, the game was less than nine minutes old before Austie Harding took one of George Ford's passes from behind the cage and rammed it home before Goalie Baker had time to get set for the shot. Just a few minutes later Johnny Mechem put the Crimson further ahead when he converted a pass from George Roberts...
Under People in TIME, Jan. 25, you have an item about Admiral Byrd, which needs a slight correction. It is true he did arrive ahead of schedule, and some of the committee who were to meet him came after he did, but we knew him at once. However, while we were talking with him, a Salvation Army lass came up with a ticket in her hand and wanted some information about trains. Although we joked about it, we all were impressed by his courteous and kindly treatment of the lady. How different some of the travelers, that stop off from...
...such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents and unraveled their red tape wherever the Great Khan's soldiers had blazed the way. Since 1934 the Red State has been "driven" or has "advanced"-according to the point of view-ahead of so-called Anti-Communist Bandit Suppression Forces dispatched by Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...earned many thousand dollars for the care of infantile paralysis patients. Far from pleasing, however, was the news that the Public Utility Act of 1935, which he spent $200,000 to defeat in Congress, had been partly upheld in New York Circuit Court (TIME, Feb. 8). With rough weather ahead for Cities Service, from Temple Hospital last week old Mr. Doherty made one of the rare compromises of his life, offered to pay the company $1,250,000 in settlement of a stockholders' suit against...
...Institute in 1935, he has made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly affable and forceful, smart as a whip. In an editorial entitled "Big Business Looks Ahead," the Wall Street Journal sermonized on his election to Steel's board as "an example of the increasing consciousness on the part of business management of the importance of labor relations...