Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every one is asking how long it can last. But Mr. Laval proves the truth of the proverb that threatened men live long. Some say he is lucky, but his luck has recently been that of a man who thinks quicker than his opponents and is always one move ahead...
Could the Italian-born Holy Father in his compassion fail to yield to the Italian logic of this deal? In Berlin last week Italian diplomats went ahead in preliminary conversations with the Wilhelmstrasse and the German Bishops over details. From the German viewpoint it could mean the immediate spending, during a hard German winter, of 20,000,000 marks...
...nearly 30% more than they were paid in 1934. Average wage per hour is 76?, higher than in 1929, and average earnings per week worked are $26.99. Passenger car sales in November totaled 215,000 units, biggest November in the industry's history. But by moving ahead the automobile shows and creating an end-of-the-year selling season, the motor makers have made it difficult to compare 1935 production figures with the output of any previous year...
...amorous buffoon and gossip" of the Diaries, but a busy little executive, years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed...
...John Carlton and I received a call from Ottowa," he confided, "begging us to come, in fact demanding that we come. Well, I had a couple of stiff exams ahead, but I yielded and we were off to Canada. The next morning we looked around and saw the whole town placarded with signs heralding the two 'American dare-devils.' That's why they were so insistent...