Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education of our officers to administer and lead armies does not mean that military men are seeking to provoke hostilities. Rather it is a continuation of the only course that a self-respecting nation can pursue. So inoffensive are our purposes and our manners that now, as always, our country suffers from a reputation and a consciousness of weakness...
Stalwart Republicans made light of these remonstrances, saw nothing unusual in forcing the national army to use the national colors, adding that permission to fly the monarchist emblem might lead to a part of the army fighting against the Republic, if they so chose...
...championship, which, after many a ball had glittered over a smooth patch of turf, was awarded to Buffalo. In these championship matches the game was a network of rules and conventions. As in all modern bowling-on-the-green, however, the general procedure was this: the first player, or lead, sent his bowl-the size of an indoor baseball-into one of the rinks marked off on a 40-yard square green in an effort to hit the "jack" or to rest as near it as possible. Following players, up to the number of four, tried also...
...that the U. S. is approximately equal in naval strength to Britain (whereas the airing of statistics at Geneva has proved Britain's long lead...
...good golf. Carl F. Kauffman, Pittsburgh, plays the best. Kauffman last week won the National Public Links Tournament, at the Ridgewood Club, Cleveland, defeating William Serrick, New York, in a match play. Kauffman lost the first three holes in the final, won them back and three more, lost the lead, and won on the 37th hole. His round was 77, the loser...