Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard pushed the stroke up at the end to a 38 as it crossed the finish line two lengths ahead of the struggling Tiger boat...
...nomination of Lewis Strauss went before the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee more than three months ago-but the committee did not call Strauss up for questioning until mid-March. Chairman Warren Magnuson hinted at what lay ahead. "There are many, many questions," said Washington Democrat Magnuson, "and many subjects to go into." Last week the committee was still picking away at Strauss, had further hearings scheduled for this week...
...since sold its pre-1948 backlog of their films to television. The trio considered breaking up the act-until TV, that supposed wrecker of old-style comedians, turned out to be their salvation. The kiddy population roared at the antique routines. By last week the reruns were running ahead of such competition as Popeye and Mickey Mouse among the romper set, and the rejuvenated Three Stooges were swinging cross-country in a highly profitable nightclub and theater tour (last week Dearborn, Mich.; this week Chicago...
Clements is now booked well ahead in provincial arenas, hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...
...held steady in March at 123.7 of the 1947-49 index. This news from the Labor Department seemed proof enough that the U.S. is not in the grip of any new inflation, but it was almost drowned out last week in a rising din over the dangers of inflation ahead...