Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth of the series of Sanders Theatre concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given this evening at 8 o'clock. M. Maurice Ravel, the French composer, will lead the orchestra tonight as guest conductor. Miss Lisa Roma will be the soloist at tonight's performance...
...intellectual liquidation of the assets and liabilities of the Reading Period is still remote. If, however, its assets are arranged in the chronological order of their appearance, the benefit to the professors, tutors, instructors, and assistants of the University will, like the name of Abou Ben Adhem, lead all the rest. For it is already clear that the respite from lectures, conferences, and section meetings has given the faculty an invaluable opportunity to do its own research work...
Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
Nicaraguans in smart khaki uniforms and armed with rifles, machine guns and dynamite bombs, lay in ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which...
...scientific man, for it is a great mistake to think the tendency of advancing science is toward materialism. Just the opposite. The repeated discoveries of new and unexpected types of phenomena in the physical world make us realize more than ever the limitations of our understanding and lead us to feel with the poet that 'As knowledge grows, from more to more will reverence in us dwell...