Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true, here was something that might mark a turning point in the war, but the 200,000 shrank on inspection. Hardworking General Pozas was able to lead a Leftist offensive, but like all the rest it petered out before the third morning with no definite advantage...
...week. He was a success. In 1917 he showed up on Manhattan's lower East Side where he was soon spotted and signed up by Maurice Schwartz of the Yiddish Art Theatre. For seven years Muni plugged hard at his work. In 1926 Sam Harris gave him the lead in the play We Americans. The play was a hit and Muni's future was virtually assured. Success did not change him much. He did not gamble or drink or imitate the ways of the Gentiles. For several years he had been married to a slender, dark-eyed girl...
...Last week's gloomy N. A. D. convention finally closed on a note of cheer, when all 2,000 delegates waved approval of this lyrical resolution: "Whereas, some of our schools for the deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient...
Strategy in yacht racing is for the boat that is losing to change her tactics. In the last half of the first leg of the first race last week, Sopwith started a tacking duel in the hope that better handling on Endeavour would reduce Ranger's lead. If anything, Ranger's tacks were executed a shade more smartly. She rounded the mark with a six-minute lead...
Second Race, around a triangle consisting of a ten-mile beat against a mild southwesterly breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...