Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advanced 125 miles in ten days flat, without having been obliged to fight a single major battle. The Japanese, who had been told they must make "heroic efforts to take Canton at any cost by November 3," Birthday Anniversary of the great Emperor Meiji, thus found themselves 13 days ahead of schedule...
Scorch Hankow? No sooner had Canton fallen than the Japanese announced their military timetable now called for the capture of Hankow by November 3", "The Sacred and Imperial Birthdate." This week, far ahead of schedule, the advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters...
Stout won the 80 and 160 yard sprints, while the versatile White tossed the 30 pound weight 39 feet 10 inches for a first place and romped home ahead of the pack in the 660 yard...
...centre bounce, has a frequency that can be measured at distances as low as 50 feet off the ground. Sensitive at present to 5,000 feet, improvements in the tube and transmitter can extend the altimeter's effectiveness to 15,000 feet. As feeler for possible obstructions dead ahead, the present 5,000-foot range would be inadequate because it would give a pilot flying three miles a minute less than 20 seconds in which to climb out of danger...
With a few detours into blind alleys, David Coyle thus blithely and optimistically charges down the middle of his road to a new U.S. His moral is that business should be encouraged, not dismayed, by signs of CONSTRUCTION AHEAD. "The middle-of-the-road doctrine, adopted in this book," he explains, "is that the common theory of capitalism is not an iron law, but that capitalism is flexible enough to escape...