Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half empty. The U. S., and the Senate with it, was watching the World Series. In Vice President John Garner's cloakroom, office a near-quorum collected around his portable radio, bet cigars on the scores. Despairing of a week-end quorum in the chamber, leaders moved debate ahead to this week. In five days the Great Debate had gone bloop...
Washington wisemen pondered the abrupt petering-out of this latest advertised Battle of the Century, saw ahead only victory for the Administration, barring a sudden unpredictable shift in the weather of World...
...General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
...value of New York Stock Exchange securities. But last week, stock prices marked time, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial leaders fiddled & fussed between the September 12 high of $155.92 and $150 (August 31: $134.41). September's stock buyers wanted to know if they had got ahead of the business procession, if so, how far. One reason why $87.50 seemed a more logical price than $100 for War Baby No. i Bethlehem Steel, was this kind of calculation: the very lowest estimate of September's gift to U. S. warehouses runs at something like...
...London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be in harness again, the Duke bought the articles over the officer's protest, selfconsciously announced: "Go ahead. It's all right. I'm your Colonel-in-Chief...