Word: lead
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...closing he referred to the relation of the United States with Germany, saying that there was no rivalry existing which should lead to bloodshed; but intellectually and scientifically the keenest rivalry should be cultivated. Here also the strife of strong powers tends to the highest development...
...Princeton football team was barely able to win from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Princeton yesterday, the final score being 8 to 6. At the close of the first half both teams had scored a touchdown, but Princeton failed to kick the goal, thus leaving Virginia in the lead by one point. In the second half the winning score for Princeton was made by Cunningham, quarterback, on a goal from the field...
...Remsen, President of Johns Hopkins University; eminent for his researches in chemistry; a public-spirited citizen; and worthy to lead the university that first taught our country the higher training of scholars...
...minute, with Yale having a slight advantage, which was increased to almost a length by the time the half-mile flag was reached. On nearing the mile mark, where rough water was encountered, Harvard made her supreme effort, and soon after passing the mile flag went into the lead, rowing a clean 31 to Yale's desperate 34. Yale held on doggedly, but at the mile and one-half mark was a length and three-quarters behind. Harvard finished in 13 minutes, 14 seconds, three and one-half lengths ahead. Yale's time was 13 minutes, 22 seconds...
Harvard opened up a lead of 10 feet in the first twenty strokes. Rowing 36 to the minute Harvard passed into the second half-mile over two and one-half lengths ahead. Soon after this Stroke Newton dropped the beat to 32 and the boat forged ahead with every powerful well-executed dip of the oars. Entering the last mile Newton again shoved the stroke up to between 35 and 36, a pace which was kept up to the finish. At the mile Harvard was seven lengths ahead, and at the finish line from 14 to 16 lengths separated...