Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn. The energy piled up by this repression Mr. Hales has variously discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses and writing regular letters not only to the Times but to "26 newspapers in England, India and the Far East...
...money but last week, in the suburban London villa he calls Selahdale, he had a real $4,000 cup called the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy, was ready to award it. Sighed he: "The only thing that really worried me was that someone else with more money might get in ahead of me. The Haleses never amounted to much before...
...that 13 years in one job had begun to wear on him. He at once plunged into the book publishing firm of Ray Long & Richard Smith. They had some successes, more failures. Suddenly one day in 1932 Ray Long walked out of his Manhattan office "a couple of jumps ahead of a nervous breakdown," sailed off for the South Sea Islands. From that point on the Long career became a study in descending discords...
...American League, the New York Yankees were one and a half games ahead of the Detroit Tigers, who, similarly placed a year ago, won the 1934 pennant comfortably. Said Detroit's aggressive Manager Mickey Cochrane, after his team had just won ten games in a row: "I believe we will win the pennant by a wider margin than we did last year. ..." Far less confident was Manager Walter Johnson of the Cleveland Indians who, picked by most experts to win the pennant, were floundering in fourth place. Said he: "Trosky has been a terrible disappointment. So has Hale...
Five thousand strong, a hopeful delegation of Croat peasants meanwhile cheered sexagenarian Croat Leader Vecheslav Wilder who cried: "We have endured seven lean years, given us by the Belgrade Dictatorship, but seven fat years lie ahead!" Seasoned old Croat rebels, such as famed Svetozar Pribitchevitch who now lurks in Paris, meanwhile slipped warning letters into Yugoslavia by secret courier. They feared that the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul, has developed Nazi leanings and chose M. Stoyadinovitch to be Premier for the purpose of shifting Yugoslavian policy a few points away from Paris and several points nearer Berlin. "Beware!" warned Rebel...