Word: lead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Foreign investment is essential to the industrial progress of any new country. Owing to her troubled affairs, Spain, the mother country, could not give this support and the other countries stepped in, Germany, France, and Italy following the lead of England. Although with the greatest natural advantages, the United States has only an infinitesimal part in the total foreign holdings...
...easily it is grasped. The great man is the man who can fix in an epigram the dominant idea of his day. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done this. When Colonel Roosevelt said in his Paris speech, "Whenever human rights and property rights conflict, human rights must take the lead," he was expressing the dominant thought of democratic government today. And that, says Mr. Bryan, was Colonel Roosevelt's greatest speech...
...less useless "interests and activities," a phase which strangely enough never seems to include intellectual development. And the remedy will only come when we realize that there is more to be got from a College course than will result from the scattered existence which most of us now lead at Cambridge...
...Simons '11 started off at top speed, opening up five yards. Lee closed this up at the finish, so that H. W. Kelley '11 had only an advantage of two yards. At the end of the second lap Prout of the B. A. A. swung into the lead and finished his relay four yards ahead. E. K. Merrinew '10, as last man for the athletic association, ran a superb race, finishing in record time, 18 yards ahead of W. H. Fernald...
...preliminary heats of the interclass race, 1913 defeated 1914 by one lap and 1911 won from 1912 by 50 yards. In the final heat the Sophomores took the lead at the start and gradually opened up ground, finishing 30 yards ahead of the Seniors...