Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly shows it. It is not the duty of this court to pass on those matters. It is not interested in them. Here you have seen for yourself the setup where billions of dollars are being expended and yet it is sent down here, and you say 'go ahead and build your own setup, you go ahead and handle it.' How you are going to handle it, the Lord only knows...
...reminded of the terrible day upon which I was called unexpectedly and against all desire to witness one woman's agony as she underwent this "essential experience." I was speeding along a desolate stretch of road in southern California a few years ago when I saw the car ahead, the only other one in sight, slither to a haphazard stop beside the road. The driver was a woman, suddenly torn with pain. She had been driving alone into town when her time had come. Shaking with terror I jerked the cushioned seats from my car, made...
...Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored of the Aga Khan's three entries, with a new record, 1/5 sec. better than the old one. Thankerton was third, unlucky Lord Astor's Pay Up, the favorite, fourth...
...pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...
...largely one of visualizing the results and of creating pleasant surroundings that will be in keeping both with the architecture and with the natural conditions of the locality. He should be competent in design and above all, have the imagination to see the finished results of his schemes far ahead of the actual accomplishment. Dealing, as he does, with not only architectural compositions, but also the problems of land grading, engineering, water-supply, and drainage, as well as questions involved by the use of vegetation in mass and detail, his training necessarily covers a wide field of study...