Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell where, with his extraordinary abilities, he would lead them. He needs, it would seem, to undergo a spiritual crisis before he will satisfy as a popular leader...
...State House; they are opposed in business; they may be adversaries for the Republican nomination for governor. Beyond that--not so long ago was a Fuller-for-President boom. Perhaps the canny Mr. Goodwin expects some one to exhume it, and finds this a chance to get a little lead in international experience before the still imaginary time when the battle moves, in all its violence, to a convention hall, and the old line-up is resumed before a national audience...
Alfred E. Smith, of New York, and Herbert Hoover of California, are far in the lead in the country-wide college poll of leading presidential possibilities being conducted by The Independent, according to recent figures...
...music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of a season that, alas, seems all too tardy in arriving--which reminds one that The Mikado is still wandering somewhere between New York and Boston, and that Spring is unofficial until Winthrop Ames has sent his latest revival to lead those bored with sophistication to the Plymouth...
...Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...