Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an ex-railroad man and familiar with the accuracy of TIME, also LETTERS, the writer had a chill of fear for the safety of the Presidential party on their recent cross-country jaunt. In the picture of Engineer Britton looking [TIME, Oct. 7] straight ahead with keen eye and steady hand on the throttle lever, it appears very much as though the reversing gear is set to send the locomotive and its burden in the opposite direction, quite a dangerous practice on any railroad...
Still standing, up to last week, was the latest promise of President Roosevelt and WPAdministrator Hopkins to make at least 90% good on their previous promise to have 3,500,000 jobless citizens at work by Nov. i. Last week the dole deadline was pushed ahead...
...Italian tank corps were scouring the mountain sides and valleys searching for outposts and possible enemy ambuscades. The smallest tanks, ''fleas" to the troops, were scarcely shoulder-high. Last week "fleas" scrabbled through gullies, over boulders and along trails that would have stalled a goat. But always ahead of them was chunky, wily Ras Seyoum, onetime Governor of Aduwa, commander of the Ethiopian forces in the North...
...fact that the fellowships have doubled the enrollment from the affected states, it will be a superhuman task to effect a balance of power between the cast and the west. Yet this is what must be done if Harvard is to beat provincialism. Mr. Conant has a hard task ahead of him, made even more difficult by the necessity of maintaining academic standards at the present level. But he must continue to develop the frontier and push it forward if Harvard is to be a national university...
...authentic ring of those which preceded Japan's invasion of Manchuria and setting up of the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. Today the Nanking Government is already so pliant toward Japan that further acquiescence is well nigh impossible if the Government is to remain in any sense Chinese. Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former Chinese Governor of Chahar, General Sung Cheh-yuan...