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Word: leading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With only one more match to play in the clash with the Freshman class tennis team, the 1928 netmen are in the lead by a five to one count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Netmen Lead 1930 | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

There will be many who look upon the barren results of the CRIMSON's Eating Ballot as a substantiation of the well worn axiom that one may lead a horse to water but one cannot make him drink. Certainly there is opportunity for the analogy, in spite of the fact that the project concerned men and food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROOF OF ONE PUDDING | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

...breaking off of relations is serious business. You cannot treat the situation as though everything would go on exactly as before. Twenty-four powers have recognized Russia following our lead. We shall be completely isolated in this respect in a Europe which is full of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Russian Break | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate with a lead pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...property, in a hurried moment, he may have swallowed the bait of "red" alarmists, those people who see in the lectures of a courageous leader of thought or in the ebb of the New York market the fires of a great and devasting uprising, lead by the "reds". Who the "reds" are has yet to be decided. Perhaps Mr. Hovey will find that when he discovers why "socialists" are per se wicked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNK | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

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