Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee shoved his way into the spotlight with a bill so similar that the Government Printing Office ran off copies from the plates made for the Lewis one. Then Chairman Doughton wangled a lower number for his bill which would place it ahead of the Lewis measure upon the House calendar. Mr. Lewis protested against this attempt to rob him of his legislative rights. But the bill that was before the House last week had been rewritten in committee, given a new number and christened "Doughton." Congressmen wondered whether Representative Lewis would...
Playfair should romp home in the 3000 meter without much trouble. In his last race the Tri Meet at the Boston Garden--he finished a full half-lap ahead of his nearest opponent...
...befits a German Emperor, which he is in all but name, Realmleader Hitler sat alone ahead of the congregation. Realmbishop Ludwig Muller pronounced the words of holy matrimony, almost the only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
...shells fought each other over every yard of the 3-mi. course with California a length ahead at the halfway mark. Washington, using a slower but more powerful stroke, gradually caught up from there on. At the finish, the bows were so close together that, while the judges were trying to decide who won, an unofficial announcement through loudspeakers rigged along the banks gave the victory to California by two feet. While the crowd was yelping too loud to hear it, judges announced the real result: Washington, by two yards...
...talk," he said concerning the question of radical movements within the University. "Repression would aid their cause. Harvard students are sensible enough." He opposed repression as contrary to the University's tradition of free speech and thought. "One of the traditions of Harvard is to see a little further ahead, to see a little deeper...