Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Knox. No. i man was William Edgar Borah. But Mr. Borah is a man more likely to get a Republican Presidential nomination when it does not mean anything than when it does. By continuing to go about making speeches, friends, contacts, Frank Knox has put himself far ahead of any potential rivals, has in the past 30 days begun to take his candidacy in dead earnest. When the time comes for him to set up a platform, Frank Knox, like all the other Republican candidates for the nomination, will perforce make one from what they consider Franklin Roosevelt...
First lay out the CRIMSON with page one showing, on the back of the person sitting in the row ahead. Fold it lengthwise along the middle, open it up again, and then fold the two top corners into the middle. You now have a 45-degree angle--another such fold will make a 22 1/2 degree angle, and a third an angle of 11 1/4 degrees. (Professor Coolidege told...
Harvard should have at least four years of it, otherwise the girls will be getting ahead of us. The women are evidently going to supply the brawn while Harvard supplies the brains. But that is hardly brain-worthy of Harvard. The Vassar girl was right when she saw the humpbacked undergraduate body at Harvard and remarked that "Harvard men look so stoopid...
...high jinks was the water bombardment. Out of every club and hotel window from the levee to the West End, pedestrians were peppered with water-filled paper sacks. Caught by two city detectives in the act of dousing someone beneath his hotel window was a hero a war ahead of most of the other celebrants-Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, 65, who has spent most of his life since he sank the Merrimac at the entrance to Santiago Harbor crusading against liquor and narcotics...
...League pennant last fortnight but long before that their victory had been an overwhelming probability. The Cleveland Indians, favorites in the spring, never got started and a change in managers did not help. The Chicago White Sox, leaders in May, slipped in June. The New York Yankees, who were ahead on the Fourth of July, collapsed sooner and even more feebly than the Giants. In the second division until June, the Tigers finally got going with the hot weather, coasted through the last two weeks of the season, winning less than half of their last 15 games...