Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration is apparently going ahead with its attempt to restore prosperity by egregious expenditure. It is said glibly that this puts the burden on the taxpayer of the future. Beyond very grave doubts whether any expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...
...between $3,500 and $7,500. Of the 1,461,000 sports-addicts who paid admissions to Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in 1933-34, 440,000 went to see professional hockey games. This season, attendance in most of the cities represented by big-league hockey teams is ahead of last year's. By last week, the major-league hockey season was sufficiently advanced for experts to make their prophecies on how it will end next month, when the three leading teams in the two divisions-of the League play a complicated round-robin tournament for the world...
Gestures of this sort, and the fact that attendance is not so far ahead of last year's as it should be in view of the team's prowess, irritate its owner, Chicago's Major Frederic McLaughlin who attends Black Hawks' games with his famed wife, Irene Castle McLaughlin. On Goaltender Chabot, disdainful, lazy and alert, they have no effect whatever. Occupied entirely with his job of making saves-i. e. keeping the puck out of the goal-Chabot is irritated only when he fails to do so. Last fortnight he clubbed a goal judge with...
...last meet. Phil Good of Bowdoin, Johnny Donovan of Dartmouth, and Fritz Pollard of Brown will be pressing the Crimson runner closely, and he may have to break the world's record which he tied in the Knights of Columbus Meet in order to hit the tape ahead of his fleet opponents...
...goalie fight is still strong with Franklin Reece ahead of Waldinger at present as contender for second goal tender. Thornton Brown will be the only substitute for Dow and Watts on the defense, but it is possible for Stubbs to use Ecker and put Dewey in his place on the line...