Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, which seldom gets noisy until the last quarter-mile of a race, sensed that the climax would come early and set up a swelling roar. Then, suddenly, it was all over. With Capot saving ground on the rail, he nosed ahead on the turn. Coaltown tried but could not keep up. Down the backstretch Capot's lead lengthened to two lengths, then to four. Brooks hit Coaltown only once, got no response, and did not punish him needlessly...
Many claim that it was in revolt of these crowded conditions, others bluntly allege that the class of 1951 was younger and somewhat set off from the classes ahead-but whatever the case, only 86.9 percent of the sophomore class was asked to join clubs during last February's bicker. Of all eligibles, a total of only 80.3 percent made the grade...
William Yandell Elliott, director of the Summer School, last night told the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Association of Deans and Directors of Summer Sessions that there is a "difficult period ahead" in maintaining freedom in American education...
...decency triumph. The other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses for that sort of stuff, he said then if I go ahead and I said OK I won't cry, and if some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation. I told...
Carolina, which had done nothing right in the first quarter, could do nothing wrong after that. Quarterback Bo Hagan tempted fate by throwing passes deep in his own territory-and completed them. The Carolina stands rocked as he heaved a 40-yard pass to put Carolina ahead, then engineered another touchdown to make the final score Carolina 27, Clemson...