Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is little reason to think that Secretary Hoover is this candidate. No doubt Mr. Hoover has a great personal following. Probably on a Nation-wide poll of Republicans he would easily lead all the available leaders, barring Mr. Coolidge, himself. But the trouble with Mr. Hoover's following is that it is diffused, that it is politically unorganized, that it is not concentrated in the strategic centres...
...advised by Tammany that he was to lead a ticket upon which William Randolph Hearst would run for U. S. Senator. Ensuing events at the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, where the convention was held, wrought one of those changes which no man could have planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press...
Well in the lead now, the French car slackened its pace slightly. Twelve hours later, the exhausted mechanics pronounced the task hopeless; the Hispano was flagged down to receive the news that the Stutz had been forced to withdraw. The foreign invader had traveled 1,357½ miles in 17 hours, 21 minutes, maintaining an average speed of 70.14 miles per hour. The old stock car record, made last October at Atlantic City by a Studebaker, of 1,814.96 miles in 24 hours, with an average of 75.6 miles per hour, remained unbroken...
Nicholas Slonimsky, who assisted in conducting the concert last year, will lead the orchestra on Tuesday evening. Rosita Escaloua, a pianist of no small ability, has been secured as assisting soloist...
...Tufts batting aggregation is lead by Ockert, Shea, and Muskativz. Shea has the reputation of being a consistent long distance hitter...