Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote-getting, it was Candidate Woollen who gave Senator Arthur R. Robinson a bad scare last autumn as one of the Democratic senatorial aspirants that cut the Republican lead from its normal 100,000 in Indiana to a scant...
...which will be due some months hence, upon U. S. Army stocks purchased by France in 1919. Editor Bainville, a discreet mouthpiece, barely hinted that if Parliament can be induced to make this payment, M. Poincaré will next attempt to lead the deputies and Senators by easy stages down the hard road of general debt repayment...
...Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
...yard run with Home and Swope, the speedy Green quarter miler. The Dartmouth aggregation is stronger this season than last and counts on victories in the hurdles, high jump 880 yard run, and the javelin. Wells, holder of the indoor intercollegiate hurdling championship, is expected to lead the timber toppers in both the high and low hurdling events. Maynard is conceded the advantage in the high jump, while Coach Hillman expects Smith to break the worsted in the halfmile race...
...showing any marked superiority. In this afternoon's encounter over a mile and three quarter course, crew R, stroked by Willard, defeated crew S by three lengths. Beating a stroke of about 33, the newly elected captain took his eight to the fore at the start, gradually increasing the lead throughout the race...