Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard campaign headquarters at Wadsworth House announced that the campaign in the University is way ahead of schedule and progressing nicely despite the apparent lag of contributions to the Greater Boston Fund which has necessitated an extension of the drive...
Regular practice will begin for the entire squad Monday afternoon in the Briggs Cage. This is the earliest start Crimson baseball has had in recent years. By Monday Stahl hopes to have his battery candidates well ahead of usual February form by dint of three weeks' drill last fall and another week's work beginning last Monday...
...offered to give Martin a list of all the employes of the Ford company and told him to go ahead and organize them if he could. I told him I didn't think he could make it, but he was welcome...
...commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...
...beginning of the depression, he records, "The 'European mind,' which one had mistakenly thought might be renewed and fortified, disappeared from view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people indeed." His greatest regret: that the price of The Criterion barred it ''to most of the readers who are qualified to appreciate what is good in it, and to criticise what...