Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies enclosed its circulars with their bills. Shops dressed their windows with pictures of correct attire for the occasion. Radio stations ballyhooed it. All this massed effort was to make a success of the Robin Hood Dell concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which last summer ceased abruptly two weeks ahead of time, leaving a $20,000 deficit...
...Just ahead a subway train had broken down. "P. G." decided that since it must be pushed to the next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...
...stove 200 years before. The unlucky stove-inventor was one of a myriad of scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain...
...practical certainty that the next year or so will see them buying into another city. They have long been surveying the field, have in their files a complete detailed index about almost every newspaper in the U. S. that might be for sale. With 30 years of active publishing ahead of them, with William Randolph Hearst settling into old age, with Scripps & Howard in their prime, the youthful Brothers Cowles of Iowa may yet step out as one of the great chain newspaper publishers of tomorrow...
...Pushing ahead with their experiment. Drs. Carrel and Lindbergh chloroformed and bled to death adult chickens and cats. They extirpated hearts, kidneys, ovaries, adrenal glands, thyroid glands, spleens and within an hour connected the arteries of those organs with the circulating system of their aseptic wobble pump. Pump and organ were inclosed within an aseptic glass tank...