Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take a strong and courageous lead in the right direction, we should be able to do much to stop the present wars and to enforce respect for signed treaties and international...
...miler Bill Wright. Jaakko has hopes for Wright as a successful cross country man. On the track last year he showed steady improvement. Though earlier in the season he steadily trailed Henry Marcy in the long run he gradually drew up to Marcy and finally claimed the lead. Roswell Brayton is a man who may come into the light this year. Whereas Erhard and Wright are coming into their last year of college and intercollegiate competition, Brayton has the advantage of being only a Junior this year, and if he needs another year to bring him to his peak...
John is everything his father was back in those terribly good old days when Brown was more than a stepping stone to the Navy game. And it may be John, along with a couple of other Brown players, who will be the one to lead his father's team from the morass of defeats it's sunk into back onto the firm ground where the coach is invited to do the speaking at the right clubs instead of being spoken about...
...organization to ask a group of unknown Freshmen to a rum punch implies that to make good with that organization Freshmen must come to the punch. And this is likely to lead men to the habit of drinking during their Freshman year, a thing that is not necessary either for any organization's success or for the success of Freshmen...
...Kellogg laid not the slightest imputation against Dr. Rhine's sincerity, but he implied that the "will-to-believe" can lead an honest scientist astray as well as a layman. The one thing that seemed certain last week was that, since the parapsychology question goes to the root of human mentality, it will go on attracting attention, Dr. Rhine will go on attracting adherents, and more skeptics will join Dr. Kellogg on the other side of the fence. And the mechanism of telepathy and clairvoyance, if they exist, remains to be explained in toto...