Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not encounter much opposition in Kannapolis. But last year Bedford Worth Black, an aggressive, 41-year-old lawyer, dared to file for the state legislature without consulting Cannon. What was more. Black pointedly conducted an independent campaign disavowing allegiance to anyone, "except the people." He slipped into office ahead of the incumbent, Eugene Bost-Cannon's first cousin...
Broad-shouldered, bird-legged Ray Norton, 21, of California's San Jose State, might have had a world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what had happened to his competitors. Nevertheless, Norton ran the heat in 9.3. Said Head Timekeeper Snort Winstead: "I think he would have run 9.1 if he hadn't turned his head." Last month at Fresno the lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.) Norton caught the fast-finishing Morrow...
...solution worked out by the Douglas Aircraft Co. for use on the new DC-8 Jetliner. Loose objects on the ground are not inhaled directly by the great flood of air passing through an engine, Douglas engineers found. Instead, a vortex like a small tornado forms below and just ahead of the engine's intake. If anything loose is within its reach, the vortex lifts it up like a house in a Kansas twister. Then the main air stream grabs it and hurls it into the engine...
...whole Church. With the whole Church we hold ourselves alert for the surprises with which the Lord of history can alter the tempo of our renewal, and for the new forms with which an eternally recreating God can startle us while he secures his Church. And we strain ahead toward the great day when the richness of our joined memories will be a small sign of the strength of our conjoined forces, and when each Church's anniversaries will be every Church's celebrations...
...Feast of Tabernacles, for instance, with four days when work is forbidden, fell during a series of lectures before a make-or-break exam in pathology. Abe, as students and professors call him, met the situation by studying by himself all the preceding summer, put himself so far ahead of his class that he could afford to miss the lectures. "I hated like heck to miss them," he explains, "but I creamed that exam...