Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack, but otherwise his health was good for a man of 74. He talked readily enough with fellow passengers, groused a bit at being photographed, read a good deal, was delighted to get back copies of the Saturday Evening Post in Sicily. Apparently he worried little over what lay ahead until the last day or two before landing. When he spoke of himself he philosophized like many a retired businessman: "I never took pride in the fact that I made money. It was a pride in accomplishment. . . ." In Exile. Samuel Insull did not come back the same man who sailed...
...closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after the leaders. Little old Jockey Mack Garner, in the ruck with Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's big brown colt Cavalcade, swung to the rail to get out and ahead of the press. Mata Hari and Sgt. Byrne fell back, bunching the field and making it necessary for Garner to take Cavalcade all the way outside again. At the half-mile pole, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery pushed out in front and while his backers yelled themselves hoarse, stayed...
...clean and rippling wake to a like number of M.I.T. eights during informal races on the River Saturday afternoon, while at the same time the Engineer first 150-pounders out-stroked the Harvard 150's to cross the finish line of the Henley in 7.16 and eight seconds ahead of their rivals...
...airship after the loss of the Dixmude, and England followed suit when the R101 fell in flames in France on its maiden voyage to India, Germany, the home of old Count Zeppelin and the country where this type of craft first saw the light of day, has been going ahead steadily and has established a remarkable safety record. The innumerable long distance flights of the Graft Zeppelin without a single serious accident, and the fact that the German-built Los Angeles is the only ship that has survived the vagaries of American airship commanders for any length of time, show...
General returns are better this year than ever before. The Fund, with 4,156 contributors, is already running 475 men ahead of May 9, 1933, and has received approximately 25 per cent more money. In its nine years of existence, the Fund has received over $1,000,000 in gifts from nearly 15,000 Harvard men. Individual contributions range from...