Word: ahead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tackle positions Henry Adlis Seems a sure bet for the right side, but Ed Simmons is only a jump ahead of Bill Lane for the parallel job on the left. Lane has improved a great deal in the last few days and is now rated as at least second string. For guards, Franks Littlefield will be Captain Herman Gund- lach's understudy, with Bob Brookings a grasshopper's length ahead of Fran Schumann for the opposite side of the line. Gundy, incidentally, will be ready for contact work today or tomorrow...
...stock and saw that it had declined from a February high of $60 per share to around $30. Yet he had made a profit of $8,000,000 in the first six-month, which was twice what he made in the 1933 half. His sales were running 100% ahead of the year before. Thereupon, Mr. Chrysler, who is by no means ignorant of the fact that a good market for his stock is a good advertisement for his cars, decided that it would shake no one's faith in his company if he paid off another...
...England, whence it came in 1851. When Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's white Rainbow won the next four, it looked as though the Cup would stay in the U. S. for another year at least. But no one could be sure-not even Skipper Vanderbilt himself. As he finished ahead in that sixth race early this week, red flags of protest were run up on both ships to leave the series' outcome in doubt as spectators sat down to their Tuesday dinners. It was the second protested race of the contest. Not since 1895 had the America...
...danger of losing her lead was when her parachute spinnaker split, halfway out on the 15-mi. run to leeward. She broke out a new one quickly, rounded General Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht Winchester, used for the halfway mark in the absence of a buoy, five minutes ahead of Endeavour. She matched every effort the challenger made in a tacking duel on the beat home and crossed the line almost a mile ahead, needing only one more victory to decide the series...
...Statler, he declared he was certainly critical of the New Deal, but "in an effort to be constructively critical." Certain things should be saved, he said, such as "personal freedom and liberty, freedom of the press, and the ability to combine security with progress." Pointing to the "new frontiers ahead," and calling them "just as challenging as those of the past," he stated his faith in a future for the nation just as great, alluring, and inspiring as ever before...