Word: ahead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Longfellow Hall under Harvard regulations. Nevertheless, students in the early forties campaigned for the right to apply the honor system to final exams. When Dean Mildred P. Sherman proposed the idea to University Provost Paul Buck, he told her it would never work at Harvard, but to "go ahead and try it" at Radcliffe. The Annex went ahead, but it was soon apparent that the total freedom advocated by Student Government was a step in the wrong direction...
They were cold and thirsty after a long march, and anyway, the Police Commissioner, with his gay motorcycle escort, was well ahead. Eight young majorettes high stepping proudly in their cerise cunics and white wild west boots, came prancing after them. Marching along squarely behind their majorettes were two girls supporting a felt banner boasting the words, figured in fuchsia on a green field, "Roxville Junior Marching Band and Music Team." And directly behind them came the marching band and music team in its full strength, playing a lilting interpretation of "McNamara's band...
Dirty Shirts? Two months earlier Republican Rockefeller, just elected by a 550,000-vote margin over Democrat Averell Harriman, captivated the legislature's Republicans by painting in broad inaugural brushstrokes a picture of the road ahead. Then legislators got a glimpse of the canvas' detail. Rockefeller introduced a record $2 billion budget, asked an unprecedented $277 million in new taxes to balance it. Many newspapers were horrified, legislators were inundated with letters protesting the increases...
Belle, 27, is Pittsburgh's onetime "boy wonder" of finance, wanted for bilking three Eastern banks out of $825,000. Cage, 41, is under sentence to ten years in prison for embezzling $100,000 from the Texas insurance company he once headed. Both fled south just ahead of justice and took refuge in the fact that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the U.S. and refuses to sign one as long as the U.S. permits capital punishment-which is long enough for Cage and Belle...
...reason for the inventory buildup is plain: consumer appetites are getting bigger. Out of General Electric's Appliance Park in Louisville went the biggest shipment ever-400 railroad cars with 22,000 appliances tagged at $5,500,000. Appliance makers noted sales running about 15% ahead of 1958 as consumers loaded up with refrigerators, washing machines, and gas and electric ranges. Much of the buying was for new houses; builders reported new residential contracts for $1,021,516,000 in January, up 32% from January 1958. With the faster pace, supplies of raw materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged...