Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plenty of the rest of us are in just as sore straits but at least we are looking ahead. I know that their imagination doesn't extend beyond the ends of their noses, or at least they would have enough vision to vote for Roosevelt...
...Looking ahead Dr. Angell saw a bleak prospect in the attempts at censorship already with us in the form of taxation on universities and oath bills...
...trusting to private polls, it had sent a postcard questionnaire to 280,000 Maine voters, almost every one in the State. Returns had shown every Republican candidate running from 3-10-2 to 3-to-1 ahead of his Democratic opponent. Chairman Hamilton risked his prophet's reputation last week by asserting flatly that Maine would go down the Republican line by 50,000 to 100,000 votes...
...July 15, the New York Giants were fifth in National League standing. Last week they were first, three and a half games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals. To make the jump had taken them less than eight weeks, in which they won 15 consecutive games, and a total of 44 games out of 59. Since reaching first place, three weeks ago, their pace has slackened perceptibly but not enough to prevent them from continuing to draw away from the Cardinals and last year's pennant winner, the Chicago Cubs. With 14 games left to play last week...
With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...