Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain bondsmen and "lawyers" who, for fat cash fees, hold...
...dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf needed to win, but he missed a long one. Rudolph made a run of 14, another of 23, won the match, the championship...
...during 1931 is expected to total $1,000,000. New cars by big manufacturers are common. New cars by independents are increasingly rare. Last week motormakers praised Mr. de Vaux's enterprise, pointed out the field is crowded, he will have to pedal fast and furiously to get ahead. But he has many loyal supporters in the West; he can appeal to the desire to support "home industry." Undismayed was William Crapo Durant who immediately proclaimed Durant Motors will supply the Pacific Coast, bringing more business to Lansing, Mich., which still awaits the increased business Mr. Durant promised when...
...Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There is a difference in the tails...
Conservative Manhattan bankers last week were angry at Bernard K. Marcus, dark-haired, heavily-built president of Bank of United States. His aim was perhaps much too high. Only last year he stated: "Often we've put two or three days work into one. We have gone ahead two or three times as fast as we would have had we been working only one day at a time." To bankers, a day's work is a day's work, to be done well, thoroughly. Constantly repeated was the story that at every conference Banker Marcus had adopted an attitude...