Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coming out of the last turn, 40 yd. from the finish, Mangan gave his kick, sprinted. This time Cunningham did not swerve. Ten yards from the finish Mangan passed him and, timed at 4:11. won his fastest mile by a foot. A foot behind Mangan and a foot ahead of Cunningham, in a race that seemed to be a milestone for U. S. milers, was Venzke, who last beat Cunningham...
...circulation from 43,000 to an alltime high of 81,000, expects to kite it still further as a tabloid. High-voiced, quick-moving, affable, he has a huge estate with electrically-lighted waterfalls in Alta Canyada, Calif., is an efficient horseman, pistol shot and fisherman. He can look ahead to many a Boddy publishing year not only because he is 42 but because his two sons Robert, 16, and Calvin, 14, pitch into newspaper chores with vim and ambition when they go home on vacation from San Diego Army & Navy Academy...
...Emerson's "terms of men" teachers and students alike--that plans for the century ahead are being made, and it can hardly be that we are entering a "static period" in our educational history--certainly not at Harvard. --N. Y. Times
...hour set for arrival in London was 3 p. m. but somehow the train got there 15 minutes ahead of schedule. In the royal salon car as it drew into King's Cross Station a painful dilemma was in course. Gently the King urged Queen Mary and the Duchesses to alight at once and set out by limousine for Westminster Hall close by the Abbey, where George V was to lie in state. The Queen in her grief felt that she should not leave the railway station until the gun carriage bearing George V had rolled away. Assenting...
...inventing new scholarships, new professorships, new graduate schools, Harvard will have to get on with its paltry hundred millions, try to make its expenditure more efficient and more valuable. Million dollar ideas require millions of dollars, and if President Conant's prediction concerning the "static" period which lies ahead of us comes true, this money won't be rolling in in the manner to which Harvard has become accustomed...