Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This winter, for instance, they have been able to row outdoors the entire season, while it will be remembered that in the 1948 Compton Cup race the Crimson had to break the course record to finish 12 inches ahead of the Orange and Black. (In two meetings later...
Clocks are to be set ahead one hour tonight in celebration of the annual Going - on - Eastern - Daylight - Saving - Time - Day. The appointed hour for the change is 2 a.m. But Radcliffe just to be different, and to save its students probationary embarrassment, will make the shift at 6 a.m. instead...
...doubles, Barnaby hopes to try the new combination of Craig Coombs and Tom Zinsser if, and it seems probable, the score is high enough in favor of the Crimson. Barnaby has three other doubles teams, but he's looking ahead to the Yale match which requires five doubles matches instead of the usual three...
Kirkland sneaked ahead, 3 to 0, in the third inning on three walks, a two-base error, and a steal, but the Gold Coasters bounded back with two tallies in the top half of the inning and another in the next to tie the score...
Strangely enough, the comedy sequences are funny in the same way that the Old Howard comics are funny. Observers laugh first because they can spot the gags upwards of a mile ahead of time, and second when they find they were right. This situation arises because Paramount has followed alarmingly closely (for Hollwood) the original Twain work. To be sure, they schmalzed up the beginning and end and threw in a little sledgehammer moralizing in the middle, but they kept their grubby paws off much of the Twain dialogue and all of the comedy situations...