Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporting a 10 per cent increase in total University beer sales, the Business Manager and the Commissar are going ahead with plans to renew licenses...
Driving his Varsity squad ahead at top speed in preparation for next Saturday's clash with Brown, Coach Dick Harlow devoted most of yesterdays session to work on such fundamentals as blocking, tackling and pass defense...
...George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took a second fling at matrimony, wed a girl of 18. Now he has two more children, aged 2 and 5. Asked last week by the Referee if she was happy, Mrs. Skeet, "with a look of almost reverence in her eyes," said: "He is the most wonderful...
When the Yankees became mathematically certain of the American League Pennant a month ago, they had won 91 games. By last week, with no particular incentive, they had raised the total to 102, 19½ games ahead of second-place Detroit. Altogether, the team had made 182 home runs, an average of more than one for each game, nine more than the record set by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total...
...similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission's powers over rail roads. Last week, when President Roosevelt "temporarily" appointed three* of the five Commissioners, their major duty was to make the U. S. Merchant Marine fit for competitive war with all comers on the high seas. This work lies ahead of them. Meantime, under their noses last week raged a bitter internecine war within the U. S. Merchant Marine itself, about which the Commission soon found it could do very little...