Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nits career, the tutorial system needs strong friends, able doctors who can pull the system out of its recent attack of budgetosis. Yet Professor Burbank has packed up his bag and closed his connection with the case. Does this move herald some gloomy days for the tutorial system ahead...
...Germans have more anti-tank guns than the French, and learned the value of heavy armored tanks after the debacle of the light tanks in Spain. But Germans are way ahead in production of planes, build them with speed and without gadgets, "to fight in . . . [not] to live in." Since kudos goes to Nazi airmen, morale of air force is excellent. Göring's policy is to produce pilots in short order, then turn them loose and depend on the survival of the fittest...
When a misread timetable landed Labor Martyr Tom Mooney in Manhattan one and one-half hours ahead of his scheduled arrival, he thumb-twiddled until a Grand Central policeman spied him, hustled him into a private office. Still determined not to muff his entrance, Tom Mooney slipped away, hopped the right train as it chuffed to a halt, reemerged, in time to gladhand some 15,000 laborites, newsmen, photographers...
...Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter. Hubert framed Jamie on a treason charge, had Purity abducted, kept a couple of jumps ahead until, along about page 800, Jamie's luck began to change...
When last week's Derby was over, the bookmakers were a gloomy lot. Blue Peter had finished four lengths ahead of the field, had cost them more than $5,000,000. But there never was a more popular victory. Leading his colt to the winner's circle, Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, grinned from ear to ear, told reporters that the silks his jockey wore in the race had belonged to his father, had been discovered in an old trunk during house-cleaning a few weeks before...