Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence of a mythical line at an elevation of 2.500 feet, did not stop the inhabitants from screening the doors and windows. I will admit the general paucity of mosquitoes, but that was due, not to the elevation, but to the great lack of stagnant...
...your article on Dr. H. W. Reherd's advertisement in the Presbyterian Magazine [TIME, May 16] must you needlessly go out of your way to describe one of God's noblemen as "Blatant," "considering himself the Missionary to the Mormons?" Certainly nothing in his article would lead to that conclusion and again, certainly, if you knew the man, nothing could be more foreign to him, and your sense of fairness would compel you to make an immediate retraction. Just a little more courtesy where an honorable man is involved...
...history now, they say, that the Harvard crew last week took the lead at the start with powerful, lunging strokes; that Yale was a length and a half behind before the three-mile (three quart ers) mark was reached. Then Yale began to row with all the human efficiency that Coach Edward O. Leader had taught...
...pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly...
...German practice of transferring nearly one-third of the revenue at the Federal Treasury to the treasuries of the various German states for ultimate expenditure. These transfers, declared Agent General Gilbert, are too often made without adequate investigation of the needs of the states thus aided, and so lead to state extravagance...