Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon regatta Rowe's boat finished a length ahead of its nearest competitor after taking an early lead over the mile course. Stroke Wagner's boat was in second place, closely followed by the swingers paced by Comstock. Jack Wilson's aggregation was clocked in fourth place...
While the director's work has been most successful in the field of students between school and Freshman years, another and perhaps more important job lies ahead. His office should next attempt to supplement records compiled for first-year men with similar information in the undergraduates' senior year. Not only would this be a step in the direction of post-graduate training, but the data afforded by comparisons would contribute a great deal towards research to be undertaken in Dr. Bock's Grant Fund program...
...first five minute period was barren, but in a tardy drive in the last few seconds Harnden put the Crimson ahead. Ives, substituting for Captain Johansen in the last part of the fourth period, put a hard fight on the right wing...
...young professor at Ohio State University, J. Wayne Wrightstone, compared some 500 youngsters, carefully matched in intelligence, family background, calibre of their teachers, etc., in matched Progressive and traditional schools.* As has almost every examiner before him, he found that the Progressive pupils were ahead in reading, spelling, language, arithmetic...
Publisher Vann gave as his reason for thus switching allegiance the fact that his good friend and patron, Senator Guffey, had been demoted to No. 2 Democrat in Pennsylvania when David L. Lawrence was put in ahead of him as State Chairman. Beating the Jones-Earle ticket would restore Senator Guffey as Pennsylvania's No. 1 Democrat and patronage dispenser. At this announcement, Senator Guffey declared himself shocked and grieved. He said Publisher Vann's reasoning was "deceitful and dishonest." He professed his utter loyalty to the Jones-Earle ticket. He protested that it was "not through Guffey...