Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hill for a birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Speaker's dining room, flabbergasted Congressmen by popping into the House chamber for the last dull rites of that archaic ceremony -counting the electoral votes. Cracked he, as he left: "It looks like I'm ahead...
Rude Interruption. Disregarding the inevitable, the Nationalist government pushed ahead with plans for a last-ditch stand. All ordnance plants in the Shanghai-Nanking area, much light industry and operational headquarters of civil and military airlines were being moved to Taiwan and Canton. The Communications Ministry was shifting personnel and gear to Kiangsi, Hunan and Kwangtung...
...Boss. This week, Percy got the go-ahead to finish the job-and in his own way. To succeed McNabb, who died last week, the directors chose him president. At 29, he is boss of a company that sold $18 million worth of motion-picture cameras and equipment last year, and earned a net profit of some...
Adams won its first game of the season against Leverett, but had to come from behind in a close game. In the last minute Frank Holt scored for the Gold-coasters to put them ahead, 41 to 40, and a foul shot for each team didn't change the issue. The game dumped the Bunnies into a last-place tie with Adams each with a 1-4 record. Adams '50 won the B League game...
Harvard stayed ahead throughout the entire first period, but it took Cornell just five minutes of the second half to pull to a 29 to 28 lead, and then to 33 to 28, mostly on the work of Rose who dropped two set shots and tapped in another. Hold scoreless for the first half, Rose scored ten points in the second...