Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the hay lay Allied men about to be smuggled out across the lines. After German soldiers had probed the first cart with pitchforks, Heroine van Houtte, then 24 and passing for a buxom peasant lass, contrived that the Germans should not notice while the second cart was driven ahead of the first...
...take place. The impossibility of such a thing is seen upon analysis. Mr. Stiver states that there were no copies [of TIME] in Seattle, as none had been printed while he was en route from Chicago. That being the case, how could copies not printed at the time sail ahead of him, presumably on one of the C.P.R. ships, be dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland? I am truly curious. I have sailed that stretch plenty of times, and never once have I seen a "post box" of any description...
...Cochrane picked the ball out of the dust. His throw to first base beat the runner by a foot. The next batter made a two-base hit but the two that followed flied and grounded out. The All-Star game thereupon ended, with the American League still two runs ahead...
Coal production, not only because of cold weather, but because of the prices of competing fuels, has run 60% ahead of last year during the first five months...
...Also ahead of the ruck was a candidate with an astonishing record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...