Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right in the controversy on smoking; and they, in no uncertain terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic details of flooors strewn with cigarette butts, of smoking bouts fought with grim determination, of gloomy morning afters from nicotine orgies...
...electrons into the next similarly acting cylinder, where 300,000 more volts gave a final kick. The rays cascaded out of the apparatus at 175,000 miles per second-almost as fast as light, 350,000 times faster than a rifle bullet. Dr. Coolidge watched them, hiding within a lead-lined, lead-paned booth so that he might not be injured by the incalculable effects of his experiments...
...abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity of her face is pleasant but almost smothered in plot glucose...
...University quintet decisively repulsed the invading contingent from the Pine tree state in Hemenway gymnasium last night with a score of 53 to 25. A good passing attack gave Harvard an early lead. At the end of the half the score stood 32 to 10. With this lead many men were used to finish the game, piling up a lead on the weakening University of Maine forces...
...season, when it toppled a quintet from M. I. T. to the tune of 32 to 27. A complete change in the offensive line, by the substitution of two sub-guards for the two regular forwards, added to the power of the Crimson forces, Harvard taking the lead shortly after the initial whistle and holding it throughout the game...