Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fell in behind Farrell. And when Farrell came up to the sixteenth needing only two par holes to win, all the people who had been scattered over the club grounds formed into lanes on each side of the fairway. Farrell came to the eighteenth with a two stroke lead, purposely drove over the heads of the crowd into the tenth fairway, pitched his approach to the flag and sank his putt, winning $5,000. Cruickshank got $2,500, Sarazen...
Died. Louis J. Reckford, 62, president since 1886 of the American Lead Pencil Co. (plants in Hoboken, N. J., London & Paris); following a minor operation; in Manhattan...
...also take to the water today with a clash on the upper reaches of the Charles, scheduled for them. These boats, stroked by James de Normandie '29, F. B. Lee '29 and N. C. Faxon '30 are rated very evenly. The outcome of their competition this afternoon will probably lead to a shift in the seatings preliminary to the picking of the regular first two crews on April...
...Galsworthy makes the small parts real, any man can write a lead that will not play too badly, but so much of the fineness of the play lies in the small parts that the great playwright won't overlook them...
Jonathan Dickinson, who took his Yale A B in 1706, took the lead in establishing the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University, and served as its first president. The newly founded college was established in Dickinson's house at Elizabethtown, N. J. in May 1747. It was not removed to Princeton until a decade later. A majority of the first Board of Trustees of Princeton, and Dickinson's two successors in the president's chair, Aaron Burr and Jonathan Edwards, were also Yale graduates...