Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negatives by classes ran just ahead of the affirmatives...
...Some new relief bill must be passed, something to succeed WPA and FERA. What the President might propose or whether he might simply let Congress decide, no one knew last week. Last spring Congress spent about two months squabbling over relief. Next spring, an election ahead, Congress may squabble just as long and just as bitterly on the same subject...
...weaknesses. His smile was premature. Gradually gaining momentum, N. Y. U. bunched up on their opponents, slowly whittled the gap between them. At halftime, they were six points behind. Then they opened up. Netting the ball from every angle on the floor, they tied the count, pushed ahead. With four minutes left, they had a margin of 11 points. Purdue woke up. Led by Captain Bob Kessler, crack left-handed forward, they snipped off the lead, drew up to one point behind. With 30 seconds to play, Purdue's forward, Jewell Young, had an easy lay-up shot...
Until 1935, when the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan was moved ahead two months to November, year-end motor news was completely monopolized by the prima donnas of the passenger car industry. Ignored were trucks & buses, the output of which in better days rolled up a wholesale value of more than $500,000,000 yearly and last year was worth $388,000,000. Last week for the first time the truck industry had an opportunity to flourish its record...
Representative-elect Main tacitly deprecated the issue after his victory. Said he: "The Townsend clubs endorsed my candidacy after it was under way, but I entered the race at the urging of disinterested friends as the candidate of no group or faction. In the critical session of Congress just ahead I shall give my best efforts to representing all the people of the district on the various issues of domestic and foreign policy that may arise...