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Usage examples of headway.

With her great screw barely turning enough to give headway, the Archerfish moved slowly through the Arctic waters.

Once together, we stood almost back to back against the great boulder, and thus the creatures were prevented from soaring above us to deliver their deadly blows, and as we were easily their match while they remained upon the ground, we were making great headway in dispatching what remained of them when our attention was again attracted by the shrill wail of the caller above our heads.

They reached Caen in the early afternoon, but by then the Pente- cost was halfway down the river to the sea, blown northwards by a fitful wind that barely gave headway against the last of the flood- ing tide.

Gradually, as the work on one position after another was completed, and Makapuu still made no headway into the one solid rock, more and more men were shifted out there to help cut with 820 Barco drills the one solid rock.

A mediator was called in at the behest of the mayor of Hopewell and the governor of the State of Illinois and with the blessing of both union and management, but he failed to make headway.

I gathered little headway was being made for there were so many countries present, all with their own ideas of how Europe should be reapportioned now that Napoleon was exiled.

Yet the ship lost headway as the remaining tillerman deserted her post.

This was one area in which Westernization made little headway in Japan, and even today many Japanese continue to live, as they have for centuries, in houses consisting chiefly of sparsely furnished rooms with matted floors upon which to sit and sleep.

A few cars were driven by androids, but not even they could make headway against the impacted mass of cars.

Apparently they started out hoping to make headway against cancer, but switched their focus to antibiotics later.

Thus it was that sunset found Phaid sunk in the back of an autocab, fretting miserably as the android handler made little headway in the totally snarled traffic.

America was going to make an ass of itself in the eyes of the world if it engaged in a know-nothing persecution of science, and they had begun to make some headway when Strabismus and a score of his associates launched a frontal assault, charging the professors with being atheistic humanists and Communists.

Their desperate scrambling hardly made any headway up the slope, especially with Mateus still trying to rein in Jankin, so the exit was the only way.

Then on once more upstream, which now began to broaden into placid lakelets, thereby lessening the current and giving them a chance to make more rapid headway.

Could culture ever make headway among the blind partisanships, the hand-to-mouth mentality, the cheap excitements of this town life?