Word: leader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting tug-of-war is reported from Texas. A horse-thief and gravity against the limb of a tree. At first there was a tie, then the first side got the drop. Subsequently the leader of the gang pronounced it a "dead heat...
...spring of 1864 opened Gen. Sherman was in command of the western forces, which lay encamped several miles in front of Chattanooga. The Confederates, with a somewhat smaller force, had prepared to block any forward move and lay at Dalton, in northern Georgia. Gen. Joe Johnston was their leader. Sherman's aim was to capture Atlanta in Johnston's rear. With this aim in view he approached the enemy. All the resources of art and nature had combined to aid the latter. Mountains and entrenchment's strengthened his position. Sherman threatened the Confederate rear and Johnston retreated to Resaca. Here...
...editor to choose from, it is very creditable to his worth as a recent writer that the author of "Geurndale" should appear in this short list for it contains only twelve names in all. Among the young Harvard graduates who are advancing in literature, Mr. Stimpson is a leader, and he is thus acknowledged as one of the first of living American story tellers, a great compliment for so young a man. Of the worth of the collection of stories, of which his is one, it is only necessary to say that the critic of a leading literary paper...
...where do we find examples of our ideal? First, in the social organization that exist among the co-workers in natural science, where every man of them all is free, yet every man works as if the whole army of co-workers were under the orders of a single leader. A similarly ideal condition of organization is reached from time to time in the history of great movements, political or religious. Then individual interests are forgotten, individual self-consciousness is lost, and all the workers are for the one ideal of the movement, so that they all become one body...
...success of the Glee Club has been far in advance of anyone's expectations. A chorus of sixteen men, under the excellent training of their leader, Mr. J. S. Camp, of '78, has been everywhere received with high praise. The club gave concerts at Meriden, Newark, Wilkesbarre, Springfield and Worcester. Encouraged by the receptions which they received, the club is planning a second trip for the spring term...