Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their Little King sat down in his Quirinal Palace and wrote to King George, asking him to explain things in London? or so the British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have a way of going off by themselves, and that His Majesty's Government had in fact placed the peace of Europe last...
...Government organs boasted that the Soviet harvest is already 96% complete, several weeks ahead of its completion last year, and so bountiful that for the first time since the "Famine Years" (1931-33) correspondents predicted big Soviet grain exports...
...Pete") Bostwick, at No. 1, missed half a dozen shots at the goal but he counted with three others. Gerald Balding, at No. 2, had a hard time turning the speedy Aurora attack but he got away for two goals and Whitney made another which put Greentree ahead, 6-to-4. By the end of the eighth chukker, Aurora had tied the score and the teams came out to play again-a "sudden-death" period, ending whenever either made a goal. At the end of the period, Hitchcock picked up the ball near the sideboards, flicked it to Balding...
...machine guns. With a reported speed of 250 m.p.h., it, too, was being groomed with much secrecy for the U. S. Army. It was only 300 ft. off the ground on its second flight when the motor abruptly cut out. Faced with high-tension wires over the smooth field ahead, Pilot Thomas Van Stone tried to turn back to the airport. The heavy plane stalled, crashed to earth, killed Pilot Stone and Co-Pilot Dugald Blue instantly...
...natives saw what happened And flashed the news ahead. It was a sad, sad story; That Wiley Post was dead. He left this world a hero In search of greater things To fly around that happy land With a pair of wings...