Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Dohr does a notable job of muddling Lewis Brown's notable simplification. Mr. Brown is not yet far enough ahead of general accounting practice to carry his firm's stock on its balance sheet at market instead of book value. If he had followed the professor's advice he would have had to say "This is what we will be worth if the people who buy and sell in Wall Street are guessing right about our future earnings...
...obliged Calvin Coolidge in 1922 by running the campaign that saved Henry Cabot Lodge's Senate seat by 7,000 votes. In 1924 Joe Martin managed a campaign for himself, got into the House by a 9,600 plurality. He has remained there ever since, running far enough ahead of his ticket to win by 20,000 votes in 1936, when Roosevelt carried his district. The Roosevelt 1936 landslide turned out in one way to be a boon for Joe Martin. It occasioned the defeat in Ohio's 22nd District of popular Chester C. Bolton, famed...
...with an overwhelming force before Lérida, while other supporting Rightist units on his left and right wings completed their scheduled gains. Then the Generalissimo ordered: "Proceed to take Lérida!" In a full day of savage street fighting, with Rightist tanks crashing down barricades, artillery pounding ahead, Lérida was taken in one of the bloodiest fights...
...them past Becher's Brook Then another American horse, Battleship (son of Man o' War), a small chestnut stallion who began his career as a flat racer, pulled ahead. At Canal Turn, Royal Mail- whose former owner, Hugh Lloyd Thomas, was killed while training to ride the race, whose jockey fractured a collarbone last month-succumbed to his jinx. He burst a blood vessel and pulled out of the race...
Last month's best-seller lists revealed only two big changes in the ranking of popular favorites. Five months after publication. Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came suddenly got its second wind, spurted ahead of Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents. And among non-fiction best-sellers Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People wobbled out of first place, was crowded hard for third by two newcomers, Edward Ellsberg's Hell on Ice and Rene Belbenoit's Dry Guillotine...