Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ship of State is on the Rocks And soon it will be sunk. It has no pilot at the wheel But regimented Bunk. It wanders to the right and left, It flounders all around. It needs a Captain on the Bridge Whose reckoning is sound. London, Oh! Landon, will lead to Victory, With the dear old Constitution And it's good enough...
...lament that Ethiopia has suffered invasion. We, with thousands of people of Great Britain, express the hope that the day will soon dawn when Ethiopia will regain her ancient independence and her rightful Emperor will return and, trusting in God, will continue to lead his people toward light and peace...
When the field of 76 went out to play the last two rounds, a dozen golfers were bunched in the lead all within four strokes of each other. Cooper, nicknamed "Light Horse Harry" because he plays without the exaggerated caution of most of his colleagues, made a 70 which was spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced...
Automobile drivers have their own language. In it "heavy-footed" means not slow but fast. Lead-footed Louis Meyer, who vowed to quit driving after winning his second Indianapolis race, followed his usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer...
Economist Frederick Robertson Macaulay: "The bond market has reached such high levels it may eventually even be necessary artificially to bolster the prices of Government securities if the condition of the banks is not to be the factor that will lead, some years hence, to another general collapse...