Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James E. Maher, who wanted to return to Ireland but hated to leave the modern American comforts of his seven-room, prefabricated house in Pinehurst, N.C., solved the problem by knocking it down, packing it into 59 giant crates, and shipping it off to Ireland ahead of him. ¶ Annoyed at her gentleman friend, Evelyn Panagakis, 31, of Peterborough, N.H. got into a car, and made three runs on his parked automobile, smashing in the front, side and rear...
...noticed the red circle on his calendar as he slipped from his bunk that morning, and there was something expectant in the blue sky outside the window. Or perhaps he was expectant. He forced himself under the cold water to ready his wits for the long day ahead. He always thought better with his pores closed...
...Norris won the 1500-meter freestyle in the opening event of the ninth annual Easter "Intercollegiate swimming championship at Princeton last night while Yale's Emil Estoclet and John Moore finished second and third to put the Blue ahead 7 to 5 after the first day of competition...
Norris had little trouble pulling away from the Eli distancemen, increasing his lead from five feet after 40 laps to six after 50 and 15 after 60 lengths in the 65 1/2 lap grind in the new Princeton pool. His time was 19:40.6, nearly seven seconds ahead of Estoclet...
...songs, they are the best Rodgers and Hammerstein have written in years. Just how many years I hesitate to say on one hearing, but my impression is that they outclass "Allegro's" songs by several leagues and run well ahead of "Carousel's." "Oklahoma!" probably has them beat on sheer quantity, but there was nothing in "Oklahoma!" quite so lovely as "Bali Hai," and nothing quite so boisterously whacky as "A Hundred And One Pounds of Fun," which contains, among other phrases of equal distinction, one that goes like this: "Where she is narrow she's as narrow...