Word: lead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professor Tenney intends to lead a college exploring party of fifteen to the Rocky Mountains during the coming summer. The objects of the expedition are to give practical instruction to the students, to make collections for the college, and to advance science...
...lend a little prestige to the affair." Therefore they "proceeded to attitudinize in a peculiarly enticing manner before Harvard." "But Harvard had acquired considerable sagacity in its adversity, and probably remembering another (Association' to which it belonged once upon a time, and the forlorn hope it was compelled to lead there by some precocious 'Western upstarts,' it politely declined the proffered honor." We are not called upon to defend ourselves from insinuations of this sort, even when they are thrown out by a paper which has for a motto, "Above all Sects is Truth." The words quoted speak for themselves...
...Matthews' bow only a few inches from their rudder. Matthews, however, made a very bad turn, and lost about three lengths. Weld had the outside stake to themselves, but also made a bad turn, and did not take the water on the return till after Matthews. Holyoke kept the lead, and won in 14 m. 52 1/2 sec.; Matthews made up a good deal of what they had lost on the turn, and came in about a length of clear water behind Holyoke, in 15 m. 1 sec.; while Weld merely held their own on Holyoke, and made...
...first half of this race was a good one. It lay throughout between numbers two and four. As the boats began to turn the bend at the middle of the course, Brown's crew was leading, with Page half a length behind. At this point Cheney forced Ogden, who had been keeping as close to the windward shore as possible, to swing out farther into the stream. The tide was running very strong, and number four was carried out of its course towards the opposite shore. The second boat felt the tide much less, and here took the lead...
...four-oared race there were four entries. The inside crew took the lead and kept it to the finish. It was made up as follows...