Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse, are semi-idiots, confined to asylums...
...finals of the track events, Meredith was entered in both the 440 and the 880 yard events. In the quarter mile run the Red and Blue leader overhauled an early lead by Westmore Willcox Jr. '17, to burn up the track for a new world's record of 47.4 seconds...
...hour and ten minutes later Meredith came to the post for the half mile. At the crack of the gun Floto, of Princeton, got away into the lead. At the first turn Meredith's tremendous strides pulled him ahead with Floto falling back and Bingham close at his heels. As the pistol sounded the end of the first lap, Bingham forged ahead of Floto, and chased Meredith down the straightaway...
Alone but not aloof sat the blind Senator, Minnesota's Schall. His whole outlook is different, says his wife, now that he has a German police dog, "Lux," to lead...
...chess, Capablanca hinted, had become so formalised that it was perhaps possible for an expert to draw every game in case he wished to do so. To attempt victory demands a move which, if its implications are overlooked, will supply an advantage but which, if they are detected, will lead toward a checkmate...