Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate a President to succeed resigned Dr. Benes. Nomination (tantamount to election) was done by the National Assembly, now an impotent body in the control of the State Party for National Unity, which, in turn, is dominated by the Cabinet of Premier Jan Syrovy, the one-eyed general. Week ahead of time Czech newspapers announced that Dr. Emil Hacha, 66-year-old Czech jurist, would this week be unanimously elected by the Assembly...
...best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...
Charley Lutz is ready for a bigger and better year than ever from his forward spot, and his running mate, Chet Legg, carries plenty of scoring punch. Hill Humes is well ahead in the scrap for the pivot post and Lupe Lupien is a fixture as one of the guards. The veteran Fred Hockel has held down the other guard position ever since the first practice session, and he has done a fine job filling the shoes of last year's Captain Vern Struck...
...Bellboys started off the scoring with two runs in the second inning, but the Gold Coasters came back to tie the score in the first half of the third. Then Lowell went ahead on two more runs in the third and one in the fourth, and never lost their lead...
...chemistry and physics departments of Peiping universities. They explained their technique to the correspondent. "It's like a game of chess. Our opponent is the Japanese army engineer. He tries to checkmate every move we make in wrecking his trains, but thus far we have kept one jump ahead." The erstwhile professors admitted they had copied Lawrence's method of train wrecking-setting off an explosive charge under the rails as a train passed over-until they ran out of explosives. Then they used a cheaper method-pulling out the inner rail spikes, especially at spots where...