Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding this view Harvard is either ahead of the times or it is not ahead of the times; if the latter, judgment may fairly be entered that Harvard men at the best are poor sports and at the worst yellow...
...other hand, the Harvard view of a college football game may be ahead of the times. If this is true, Harvard should do all it can to spread the new gospel. There should be regular boo-leaders and better, organized booing. There should be a set of Harvard boos even as songs and cheers now exist. For any such book of boos, the following might serve as a model...
...Crimson line, with guards Dick Row and Endy Peabody pulling out, blocked beautifully, while occasionally tackle Tom Gardener would also come around to clear out the hole. On off-tackle smashes, usually with Spreyer carrying, the Yardlings were piling three men ahead of the runner as interference. Ted Lyman, blocking back, did a superlative job on cleaning out the Blue backers...
President Roosevelt followed up this warning by saying that $150,000,000 would have to be added to next year's Navy budget if work was to go ahead on six new battleships. Besides expanding the fleet and the ground forces, air forces must be geared up by mass production of planes, as they are doing abroad (see p. 18). And private utilities must be stimulated to spend $1,000,000,000 if the U. S. is to have adequate wartime power resources. Observers took all this as a tip: watch for billion-dollar Army & Navy items...
...Elliott of Los Angeles is a political hack, unillusioned, practical, alert. He managed Senator McAdoo's successful campaign in 1932. Perceiving how ebullient Sheridan Downey from northern California (Atherton, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto) had run ahead of Author Sinclair in the EPIC campaign, Jackson Elliott cocked an eye at him for 1938 because he knew where lay the biggest unstaked bloc of votes for that year-among EPIC and Townsend-conscious oldsters...