Word: lead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Still she followed his lead everywhere...
...grinding. Somebody will have ambitious plans for taking honors in history, philosophy, or mathematics, and will, in three months, perhaps be forced to leave these historic shades "for neglect of regular college duties." Somebody, perhaps, announcing no elaborate plans to the world, will do solid, sustained, faithful work, and lead his class. Who are the men who are destined to fall into these various positions? Unlike the impatient novel-reader, we cannot satisfy our curiosity by glancing at the last few pages, but must patiently wait for the denouement, - till the year...
...word "go" was given, at about half past five, the press boat, as many a knight of the quill has already piteously told his readers, was half a mile up the river. Columbia started at 39 and Harvard at 35 strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased...
...swung around and again took the inside. Yale was now at 35 and Harvard at 32, and when the three-mile flag was reached that same half-length of clear water was still between the two boats. Now in the last mile Yale commenced a desperate struggle for the lead. They spurted again and again; but the oft-mentioned "beef" in the Harvard boat was still fresh and ready. The boys pulled hard and viciously, not a man distressed, and the stroke still at 33. The water was terribly rough, and made this hard rowing cruel work...
...good batting and fielding, had everything their own way up to the fourth inning, when, by a series of terrible errors, executed by Leeds and others, the Lowells were enabled to score six runs and tie the game. But in the next inning we again got a good lead, and all went well up to the eighth inning, when a bad muff of Wright's off a pretty throw by Dow from right field, gave the Lowells three runs and the lead. But our chances were still good until the Lowells, when about to take the field, were ordered...