Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt I coveted a piece of the Panamanian Isthmus and took it for a Canal. But before diggers dared pervade that fever-infested series of swamps called "White Man's Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America...
...subsistence farming by Professor Malcolm McDermott of Duke University. What he felt about subsistence farming seemed too radical for the producers to whom Vidor offered his ideas. Besides, they believed the subject would be outdated before it reached the public. But Vidor's friends told him to go ahead and for a year Vidor hired a girl to do nothing but clip newspapers. Convinced that the common people were as interested in his theme as he was, he produced Our Daily Bread. Of it he says: "Not only is my heart in the picture, but my shirt as well...
...answer is probably "no." Harvard was a little ahead of Bates in every department, but the margin of difference was unpleasantly small. After the first quarter, in which both touchdowns were scored, the boys from Maine did things that no opening game opponent is supposed to do. In the last half Bates made 139 yards and picked up seven first downs...
...electric eye" carefully measures the amount of light and at sunset automatically switches on parking lights. It cannot be fooled by clouds and always keeps a few minutes ahead of darkness...
...course, Endeavour jumped early into the lead, held it serenely down the 10-mile broad reach to the southward. In the beat to the windward, Rainbow with brilliant tacks that time & again outmaneuvered the Englishman, showed its stern to the challenger to round the second mark almost three minutes ahead. Despite a great flash of savage speed in the home stretch, Endeavour was unable to overcome the three minute handicap, trailed home by 55 sec. Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been the greatest race...