Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industry has become the chief factor in the present life of America, and its increase in power as a means of improving the standard of living for all classes has been such as to lead to similar development all over the world. Its needs have been many, and the activities of the Business Schools that have sprung up in various parts of the country become more numerous and varied every year. For its reports on business conditions the Harvard Business School has become especially noteworthy. With the recent increase in numbers it has made another stride in advance...
Both the quality and the quantity of the backfield material which is available for the coming football season are of such a nature as to lead Crimson supporters to hope for a successful year on the gridiron. Speed, experience, and stamina can all be found in abundance in the group of 11 men who, excluding quarterbacks, are now striving for berths in the Crimson jerseyed backfield...
...accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction. . . . The gawkish period in the development of television should be passed in the laboratories...
What to do with their wealth? Fred J. Fisher apparently took the lead. He went into the stock market. On a large scale, he bought shares of various corporations. Financial writers began calling him a speculator. They linked him with Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago, an out-&-out, but secretive market operator. They compared him with William Crapo Durant, ousted founder of General Motors and now one of the shrewdest, hardest hitting operators in Wall Street...
Babyon Court had been "lived in, lived in, until it could go on living all by itself." So violently did each generation lead its own life that the Black Babyons lived forever in the whispered tales of villagers and gypsies, forever in the portraits that glared fiercely from the dusky walls of the manor gallery. Tainted with madness, each generation warped and haunted the next, till between them their evil eye withered the fruit of the womb, and ended the line. Vivid, self-willed, fascinating, they had persisted through four ages...