Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France ranked on a production par with the U. S., both down 33% from 1929. Japan and Britain are far out ahead, Japan surpassing her 1929 production level and Britain nearly up to hers...
...Medal of Honor. Thus to Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, a week before his gist birthday, went the recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. He had risen to a major-generalcy when he was retired...
...states. Yet there is hardly a Mexican schoolboy who is not familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe, returned and was executed. So, 43 years later, was Mexico's Third Emperor, fluffy-whiskered...
...killed in France, he paid her the unwanted compliment of repeating his vow in her favor. But when she had the spirit to receive a suitor who had been in jail for his pacifist opinions. Stoner refused to give him houseroom for more than an hour. But Jocelle went ahead and married him anyhow. Finally she got the old man to admit that he had forgotten what his wife looked like, and he gave in as gracefully as his old bones would allow...
...Ahead throughout the game, the Crimson cagers crowned their season with glory by downing an emasculated Yale five on Saturday night, 35 to 18. The win was a boon to Coach Wes Fesler, ending his second year at Harvard, while it ended the Yale career of Elmer Ripley with a one-sided defeat...