Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than twenty years since he gave a course of non-professional nature such as the one which he is giving this year in the University, an introduction to the History and System of Angle-American Law, and Pound suggested that he was going ahead cautiously with it. "It's teaching me something," he said...
...only of wealth in the narrow terms, but of wealth in the wider terms; to give them places to go in the summer time-recreation; to give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit, and to give every one a chance to earn a living...
...call was finally returned by Sultan Seyed Syeed Bin's plump, brown-skinned, 27-year-old descendant, Muscat and Oman's Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur. Having traveled in the U. S. for three weeks incognito as Mr. Said, the Sultan managed to reach town one day ahead of Albania's Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhijé and Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan Muskrat" by Washington reporters, Oman...
...soft-pedaling propaganda and modern meanings, by roaring straight ahead with pistol shots, slugfests, savage hysteria, explosions of Gallic wrath, Haiti becomes two hours' worth of good old-fashioned theatre. But one modern meaning arises spontaneously: When the Haitians win their freedom from the French at the end, the Negroes in the audience burst into frenzied, deep-throated applause...
...Wehe's pool, Princeton, and intercollegiate record of 1:34.5 in the 150 backstroke showed that he wasn't fooling. Pressed hard by Graham Cummin, the Tiger sophomore dug hard for six laps to finish about half a lap ahead of the field...