Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossing the finish line a scant two feet ahead of the Navy crew, and a length and a half ahead of Harvard, the Penn oarsmen on Saturday duplicated their performance of last year by winning the cup donated by Charles Francis Adams '88. The Quakers were clocked at 8:58.6 over the mile and three quarters course on the Severn River, with the Navy a tenth of a second behind, and Harvard finishing...
Last week Winners Green, Proctor and Lister went to Manhattan to be with their winning entries in the Prix de Rome show at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Confronted with a microphone they spoke a few words of modest thankfulness for the two idyllic years ahead...
Last week Pan American Airways forged steadily ahead with its transpacific airway program, assured by the Post Office Department that Congress would provide $1,800,000 for the first year of operation -$35,000 for each weekly round-trip between California and China. At Wake Island, one of the operating bases in the projected 8,000-mi. airway, a temporary radio station set up on the beach went officially on the air for the first time, contacting California, Honolulu, Midway Island...
...distinguished Irish Academy should have to meet in a hired room (five shillings a night), bewails the modern Irish spirit ("our upper class cares nothing for Ireland except as a place for sport . . . the rest of the population is drowned in religious and political fanaticism"), sees darker times ahead if mob rule is not broken ("our public life will move from violence to violence, or from violence to apathy, our Parliament disgrace and debauch those that enter it; our men of letters live like outlaws in their own country"). Once, he says, he hoped a party was being formed...
...Vagabond looked ahead and the enchantment of the distant hills drew him. There in mysterious mauve hollows was--he knew not what--but surely more beauty than this grim valley. He began his ascent toiling over brown rocks that slipped and twisted his feet. A small snake whipped across his path and twinkled away scarcely stirring the loose earth. There were no violet hollows, only shadows blotted against the cliff walls by clouds...