Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, after consolidating the readings of his executive committeemen at a consultation in Chicago, Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced that the national fever chart of Landon enthusiasm showed a slump during August, but was now displaying a hopeful rise. In that revelation he was one jump ahead of seasoned political writers, who, as the Presidential campaign rounded its Labor Day corner with only eight weeks to go, were agreed that GOProgress had definitely slacked off. Searching for reasons, they solemnly took stock of trends and events since the June night at Cleveland when John Hamilton...
...rededicating the University to the service of the country, both in advancing the cause of learning and in preparing men to meet the responsibilities that lie ahead, President Conant has set up two ideals of vital importance; freedom and truth. "Absolute freedom of discussion, absolutely unmolested inquiry" are essential to the continuation of the American cultural tradition: they have disappeared (or have never appeared at all) in many lands. The search for truth is a thorny way too, implying an intellectual integrity, a willingness to face facts, and complete freedom from prejudice and passion. It is a high ideal...
Some idea of the executive task behind the arrangements for the Tercentenary may be had when it is realized that for two full years preparations have been going on for a celebration less than three months long. Knowing the nature of the work ahead and the inevitable problems that would arise, the corporation loaded the burden upon the capable shoulders of Jerome D. Greene...
...hammer blows of the long promised building boom were at last within earshot as Federal Housing Administration announced that construction in July was 700% ahead of July 1933, that 200,000 dwellings would be constructed this year compared with 75,000 last year...
...incorrect appraisals of a bad situation, how to detect inhibitions that block purposeful action, how to recognize worry when it sneaks into the consciousness disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought. It also contains little stories grained into the theoretical material: Tucker Ames worried until he could not get ahead because his daughter was in the hospital, his business failing, and his wife in love with another man; Phyllis Foster worried over injustice; Gabriel Gadbury worried over his wife's extravagance; Robert E. Lee refused to worry over what history would say of his surrender; Martin Luther chose...