Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs caused a responsible correspondent at Addis Ababa to cable: "The Ethiopians feel that Sir Samuel Hoare's rejection of the idea of military sanctions was tantamount to a license to Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy to go ahead with the war without effective interference from the rest of the world...
...when there is such a critical position in foreign affairs?' It was in trying to find an answer to the question that I made up my mind the other day on the precise date of the election. ... I saw last week that, as far as could be seen ahead . . . there was coming a lull in foreign affairs, and as far as I could see it would be perfectly safe to hold an election in that time. I could not say the same for January...
...children to take care of. You see painting is continuous and more fluid than this sort of thing. You must sustain a mood. This can be picked up and put down at will. It is more precise and you must have time to think your effects out well ahead of time. It never used to hurt my eyes either, but I'm afraid it does a little now. I shan't do any more of them. I am appalled at the thought of the work that went into these things. I can't explain where...
...journalists assembled on a Hudson River pier, piled aboard the night boat for Albany. Loud wails went up when it was discovered that the ship's store was closed, sending cigarets to a premium. There was steak for supper, however, and a visible abundance of Scotch & soda. Immediately ahead was the prospect of tumbling pouch-eyed off the boat at 7 a. m., to be whirled by bus to Schenectady. Ahead for the week was the prospect of a good look at the inside workings of scientific industrial research in five cities...
...while New York, New Haven & Hartford was sinking to a record low (see below). Dow-Jones averages on 30 industrials showed a week's rise of 4.38 points. Moody's Investors' Service reported that 70 industrial companies reporting nine-month 1935 earnings were 17% ahead of 1934. Many of the market favorites were selling at two or three times their lows of last March. Cheered by Chrysler and General Motors earnings, excited by the approach of the New York automobile show (see col. 3), traders bought motor stocks with more enthusiasm than selection. Packard, Nash, Reo, Studebaker...