Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather and the breeze combined to make anything but favorable rowing conditions and none of the crews reached the stride of which they are capable. Though the showing was not satisfactory as far as the crews in general were concerned crew X from the start demonstrated its right to lead with crew Y second and crew Z a poor third...
Team B gained a lead over the first team in the fifth inning when Chase batted out one of Ketchum's offerings for four bases, and then added another tally to its margin in the next frame. The two point total appeared sufficient to hold off the first team, until a brace of tallies was pushed over in the eighth. After holding the second scoreless for the first half of the ninth, the team A players sewed up the game with another pair of counters...
Burns, veteran center fielder of the first team, gathered in tow hits to lead his team at bat. Six of the first seven men on the first nine's batting list were able to contribute to their team's total of seven hits...
From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high-astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword. -MARLOWE...
Lurid paraphrases of this headline were carried by scores of newspapers above a lead which gave in indirect discourse a proclamation by General Pai Tsung-hsi, the Nationalist commander in immediate control of Shanghai. His actual words were, in part: "The Chinese people must not insult the foreigners or destroy their property. . . The people must distinguish between combatting foreign imperialism and attacking foreigners. . . . But we Chinese now have awakened and Shanghai, the greatest commercial centre in the Far East, will become not only a strong base for Chinese nationalism but for world revolution...