Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most heroic gesture of the week was made in regard to taxes. Always one jump ahead of his opponents, President Roosevelt foresaw months ago that Republicans would campaign against him for his heavy deficits. In his January budget message he made his defense, drew an encouraging picture of a 1937 deficit of only half a billion dollars, smallest of the Depression. That picture was possible because he postponed estimating the amounts needed for Relief, took no notice of the Bonus Bill that Congress was about to pass, and did not anticipate the unconstitutionally of AAA processing taxes...
...Varsity will entrain at 10 o'clock the morning, a well-conditioned, confident contingent of 17 men, a team rated far ahead of their opponents, who have been dogged by injuries for the past few weeks. If the Crimson wins tonight it will be the first series which Harvard has ever taken in two straight, and, what is more, it will clinch for the Moseleymen the championship of the Quadrangular League, and a reputation as the best Harvard team in years. Bu it will be no giveaway, as those who follow Harvard-Yale hockey fortunes well know, and fans...
...daily besieged with invitations to luncheons, teas, sherry, dinner, and more peculiar functions. Work is temporarily put in the background, to be reinstated as an immediate reality when we find at the beginning of next term that these all-important yearly exams are only a month ahead. But for the present gaiety is king...
...Gogh, a crazy, ecstatic, modernist-ahead-of-his-time who never received more than $85 for a painting during his lifetime, often starved himself so that be could buy his materials, to paint the pictures people thought worthless at the time. Recently one of these "worthless" canvases sold...
...four groups by last week had found nothing convincing to outsiders, were still plugging ahead, when there came an event which first blew the lid off the yarn, then clamped it back more confusingly than ever. In a Paramaribo newspaper appeared the tale of one Alfred Harred, newshawk and alleged member of an expedition to determine the boundary of British Guiana: "Art Williams, two Indians and I took off, landed on a tributary of the main Amazon . . . started to trek across the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. . . . After several days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude...