Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful season last year, the Varsity crew was only defeated at the sprint distances once, when a Navy boat crossed the line with a lead of a third of a length, and beat Yale in a record breaking upstream race at New London...
Morover, projects such as this will ultimately lead to a wholesale shift of the center of gravity from the College to the Houses, and this will make easier and more logical the development of individual House "personality." This is an ultimate goal for the House system, and will go far toward remedying the illogical present situation in which Freshmen choose a House on ridiculous criteria the construction of the building, the comfort of the common room chairs, or the number of attractive waitresses. Two years ago House "personality" was a nebulous idea, a pious hope; today there are signs...
...apparent disposition to classify has lead S. N. Behrman to call his new play, "Wine of Choice," a comedy. Its only claim to that category is that it is not sublimely tragic. It is certainly not funny; its neatly turned phrases and condensed, polished dialogue are not calculated to make it that. Nor is it entertaining or satisfying; it confirms no one in his preconceptions. Rather is it irritating social comment with a few dramatic moments carelessly thrown...
...injury to the liver that may lead to death from subsequent attacks of what otherwise would be relatively harmless diseases has been traced to fumes from certain widely used chemicals by Dr. Cecil K. Drinker, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, and his associates...
Saturday she retaliated with a live kitten, which has fallen into the hands of Colonel Apted. The kitten is fated to lead a peaceful life as the new Yard cop cat, but still Thurston seeths with a vengeful spirit, for he is pondering upon an effective couner-attack...