Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. At Fairhaven the President lunched with his mother who had opened the old Delano house for the occasion. From this strictly family party, Governor Curley and other politicians were excluded. There Secret Service men put their foot down, decreed that automobile racing must cease, wired ahead to Boston to call out the National Guard to keep the route clear. At every stop, there were big crowds, mill hands who had demanded and got holidays for the occasion. There were Landon buttons in the crowds too, because it was evident that regardless of politics all New England...
...civil servants with a practical grasp of Britain's colossal problems in air rearmament, Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this genteel idea, and last week Lord Nuffield blew the lid off. He declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another...
Retorted Dr. Norris Wistar Vaux: "We are not going back to the days of midwifery. We are going ahead to greater and better operative technique. The policy I of watchful waiting in delivery is as old and obsolete as mid-wifery...
With December fifteenth set as deadline for the Henry Fund Fellowships, the need for seniors to plan far ahead of time the years that lie beyond graduation takes on added importance. Too often a student goes through his final year in college with his eyes closed as in a dream to the plunge that waits the other side of Class Day, and he wakes up rudely to find the opportunity for study and travel abroad denied him simply because he failed to apply in good season...
...often been the case in the past, parking regulations are again bearing witness to that unnamed but well-defined law of nature which keeps Harvard students always one step ahead of the University powers...