Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Chilean peso was falling like a plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...gathered can be placed behind the new ideas and methods developed by research, and we shall be on our way toward a higher standard of living. ... I affirm the duty of industrial leaders to hasten this development, so pregnant with good for all mankind. . . . The good life lies ahead somewhere along the road of abundance, and we shall find it by continuing in that direction with stout hearts and open minds...
That is the Harvard coaching staff and they have a tremendous job ahead of them, because losses through graduation and scholastic difficulties have riddled the ranks of last year's squad. And the coaches have been gnashing their teeth and swearing that honor demands a war with Japan. The baseball team in their trip to the Orient has carried off several of Eddie Casey's most promising lights and won't deliver them in Cambridge until after college opens...
...Bakirkoy last week with a slogan ringing in his ears: "Assure the independence of our shirts!" In a normal year Turks turn into shirts and shifts some 50,000,000 yards of cotton sheeting. This they have bought chiefly from Japan, but Dictator Mustafa Kemal is now driving ahead with a Five Year Plan to industrialize Turkey and make her self-sufficient. In this program the building of cotton mills was put first "so that the Turkish people shall no longer wear the imported cotton shirts of economic slavery to the Imperialist Powers." Last week in this defiant spirit General...
...both. At the end is added an irrelevant passage which Professor Greet wrote after a trip through Virginia. People from around Richmond may be expected to read it thus: "The cyah frightened the cow in the gyarden. The girls in the haose were scaird. The drivuh of the cyah ahead lost control and destroyed paht of the wall. The fiehce bull chahged with an awful bellah...