Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name for the U. S. A. He found it in Samuel Butler and, eclectic for once, appropriated it because he liked it. It is one of the tricks of speech and thought by which Wright links a curiously old-fashioned Americanism to an Americanism which is still ahead of his time. The Jacobs house he calls a Usonian house and it is his exhibit A in a demonstration of what Usonia might be. It "may help to indicate," he says, "how stifling the little colonial hot-boxes, whether hallowed by government or not, really are where Usonian family life...
...golfers jaunt from town to town, from coast-to-coast, making three-day stands in a carefully planned route known as the "grapefruit circuit" (see map). Starting at sporty Pinehurst with the Mid-South Open in November [No. 1 on the map], they move down the coast one jump ahead of the thermometer, spend the month of December shuttling around Greater Miami and Nassau [tournaments this year: $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open (No. 2), $3,500 Nassau Open (No. j), $3,000 Miami Open (No. 4), $4,000 Holly-wood Beach Hotel Open (No. 5)], swing over to California...
Without foresight and planning the pre-medical student may find himself at the end of his Senior year unable to enter medical school. So, also, the pre-business student who falls to set an objective and plan ahead may find at graduation that he is unfit...
...assume, however, that this Sophomore has made business his aim. What is there for him to do three years ahead which will better help him to reach his goal...
Opening fast in the first half the Varsity hoopsters jumped ahead to a 14-9 lead, the largest margin either team held during the game and led the Big Green 27-25 at half-time...