Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King into Communist? Though his most striking feats have been to make Persia safe from banditry and put the Great Powers in their place, Shah Riza, while tactically respecting Persian traditions and taboos, is now driving ahead with a program of modernization and Persian self-sufficiency which fairly makes his subjects dizzy...
...Paul's School, got his beat up to 37, splashed out to a lead of three quarters of a length. Yale, pulling a shade slower, crept up. The shells were even at the half-mile mark. At the mile, Yale was a third of a length ahead. The crews settled down into the rhythm of the race with Yale, smoothly stroked by Johnny Jackson, clearing its puddles by six feet at 30 strokes a minute, with Harvard getting less run out of a faster beat. By the time they came into the last mile, a smooth dark lane between...
Trials. Most interesting to the committee was Harold S. Vanderbilt's brand new Rainbow. In the first race. Rainbow ghosted around a 17-mile course nearly three minutes ahead of Frederick H. Prince's Weetamoe. Gerard B. Lambert's old bronze Vanitie, built for the 1914 Cup races, which the War cancelled, came in far behind. Next day. Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and skippered by one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, came out for the first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there...
...from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
...data were assembled, the National Association of Finance Companies arranged the answers by occupational groups on a percentage basis. Last week Cleveland Trust Co. charted the results. No class was rated 100%. At the top were office clerks with 92%. Various types of storekeepers ranked below clerks and just ahead of schoolteachers (85%) and railroad trainmen. Dentists (82%) and doctors (80%) were not far ahead of their nurses. Male factory workers ranked ahead of traveling salesmen (69%). Lawyers with 61% are as good a risk as female factory workers and only a shade better than auto mechanics, tenant farmers, brick...