Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some cases exceptions might well be made. Every other department in the College opens its graduate courses to well qualified students, and Engineering Sciences should do the same, at least allowing honors candidates credit for one or two. In recent years two or three Undergraduates, having got ahead in their course requirements, have taken graduate courses without credit...
Incident. Two Sudeten Germans astride a motorcycle roaring along the road to Germany near the Czech town of Cheb disregarded an order by a Czech traffic patrol to halt. Word flashed ahead to the next patrol and when the motorcyclists again refused to halt, the guards opened fire. Both Germans were killed. Anxious local Czech officials explained that the guards had merely done their duty, that both Germans were notorious Nazi agitators and had been implicated in previous serious political offenses, but soon the wires in every chancellery in Europe were humming. The Big Question hanging menacingly over Europe...
...that point President Cárdenas increased the number of Federal troops in Potosí to 10,000, sent a squadron of observation planes ahead and himself boarded the million-dollar Presidential special "Olive Train" to investigate matters at first hand in the city of San Luis Potosí. There he publicly accused the Bull of Potosí of playing ball with the foreign oil companies, and announced the Government was ordering him to disband his private army...
...Yale's undefeated varsity crew: the Carnegie Cup regatta; for the 11th year; leading all the way and finishing two lengths ahead of Cornell and six ahead of Princeton; in 10 min. 23.4 sec., the fastest two miles ever rowed on famed Lake Cayuga; at Ithaca, N. Y. Best previous time was 10:32 made by a Cornell crew...
Harvey Picker 2GB, crossed the finish line one length ahead of Peter F. Cunningham '39, in the rain yesterday to win the Junior Singles in 5:25 time. Both will be entered in the Senior race today...