Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strokes on Carnegie Lake the Columbia crew got a quarter of a length ahead of Princeton and Pennsylvania and increased its lead as the three boats, black figurines, moved between green banks covered with shouting people, over water turned to a fire by the sunset, until at the finish Columbia was two and a half lengths ahead of Penn with Princeton back in the ruck...
...upon all continents-since I. T. & T. stockholders at their meeting in Baltimore last week approved the long planned consolidation with the Mackay Companies (TIME, April 2)-birds may perch on I. T. & T. land wires. Now, under all the seas, along the lead-bound cables of the I. T. & T. fishes may snip and gulp their food of slimy algae, dainty shell fish. The International Telephone & Telegraph Co. is ubiquitous by telegraph, cable, telephone, wireless, radio...
...given us history, literature, philosophy, and even the sum of man's knowledge packed between the covers of single volumes for the enrichment and delectation of those who wish to become educated in nine days. An examination of the table of contents of Mr. Parsons' book might lead one to believe that it is just another by product of the boiling-down of the elements of the story of the earth. But it is in reality more than that...
...book before Hardy's death, its appearance is coincident with the renewed interest in the Wessex genius. It treats Hardy as a writer of prose and as a poet. From these two considerations, his doctrine is defined as a philosophy that is melancholy, even morbid in its inability to lead to anything that is tangible, or that gives an idea of the purpose of life...
...score in the sixth inning, Harvard rallied to knot the count when singles by J. P. Chase '28, W. W. Lord '28, and John Prior '29, an error, and a sacrifice netted a pair of tallies. Pennsylvania came back in the next frame, however, assuming a two run lead on a single by Allen Walker, after F. B. Cutts '28 had filled the bases with three walks. Two more Red and Blue players crossed the plate in the eighth, giving their team a safe margin of victory...