Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning shortly after dawn the Houston halted at Hampton Roads to discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...
...with no immediate plans when an excited radio operator rushed into the presence of Admiral Cantu and three Rear Admirals who were swapping yarns aboard his flagship. Instantly Admiral Cantu began to splutter orders. The Rear Admirals were piped off to their ships, engine room lights winked full speed ahead and Italy's first squadron tore for the mountain-jabbed coast of King Zog's Albania...
Baseball superstition says that the team which is leading each major league on July 4 will come out ahead at the end of the season and play in the World Series. What lends weight to this superstition is that, during the past 25 years, it has been substantiated by fact two-thirds of the time. As July 4 approached last week, the New York Giants topped the National League two games ahead of their nearest rival, the Chicago Cubs. In the American League, the New York Yankees were so placed that Detroit could not overtake them for first place before...
...Cincinnati Reds. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Braves were still in striking position behind the Cardinals. Brooklyn, which last week won its first game after losing eight in a row, and the Philadelphia Phillies, who have good batters but poor pitchers, were almost bracketed together, a notch ahead of Cincinnati...
...last six years. That move will mark a major milestone in the Baruch career. Last week Mr. Baruch explained the reason to an Associated Pressman: he is going to give up finance for literature, to write three books, The Autobiography of an American Boy, The Way That Lies Ahead for the Youth of America, Man's Conquest of Nature. Wall Street will see him less and the public will hear him more...