Word: lead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...performance of Romeo and Juliet. About forty men took advantage of the invitation and after the play were given an opportunity of meeting both of the stars. Previously the Dramatic Club had invited Mr. Sothern to speak at one of its meetings, but inability to arrange for a date lead Mr. Sothern, instead, to extend an invitation to the club...
...longer what it was "when Godfrey lead the foremost of the Franks" or when "an Englishman would rather split his ship and fall into the hands of God than into the hands of Spain." Fighting now is done with great soulless machines. There is no hope or purpose or meaning in it. "War has lost the vitality that it once had; it is a dead thing, a peril to the social body...
...this is the business of Mr. Dunbar and Mr. Chubb. How far a field the reviewer has been let gives some idea of the interest of these essays. They will lead to many more discussions-a proof of the success of the essay contest, which is, incidentally, one promising method of fostering intellectual activity...
...which the weather conditions had been very threatening, causing the postponement of the race for over an hour, the wind died down and permitted the crews to line up for the start in fairly smooth water. Harvard had a bit the best of the starting, jumping slightly into the lead, both crews rowing a little over 40 strokes to the minute. It was not long, however, before Cornell came up, and going into the lead, was never headed. At the hlf-mile flag, Cornell lead by a length, and at the mile by two lengths, rowing fairly easily...
...from the ravages of mediocrity. With the great jurists of the country's early days as examples, college men are called upon to re-establish principles which have vanished in the cloud of mediocrity that has followed popular interference with weakened legal administration and to prepare themselves to lead the public to renewed confidence in the courts...