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Word: leading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterdays race the big Sophomore crew clearly demonstrated its strength. The Junior eight caught the water first and shot a few feet into the lead for the first quarter of a mile. The 1929 shell soon slid, ahead, however, while the Senior boat dropped slowly behind the other two. At the Harvard Bridge the Sophomores led by a length, with the Juniors the same distance ahead of the 1927 crew. Just beyond this point, however, the Sophomores pulled steadily away. The Seniors hung on to the Juniors' redder until the Henley, but then fell back. At the finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORE EIGHT WINS CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

...choice between these three must be left to the individual taste; the Vagabond could not presume to decide which will be the best, although probably his own inclination will lead him to the Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

...feet tunnel, connecting with the old one near Weld Hall, will run to and under Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, past the New Lecture Hall and the New Chemical Buildings and over to Langdell Hall. From there branch tunnels will lead to various other buildings in that vicinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAOTIC CONDITION OF YARD DUE TO TUNNEL EXCAVATIONS | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...viols, horns, drums, assemble in the large front room-a small symphony orchestra. Giuseppe G. M. Gallo heads the academy, directs the musicians to their places, hands out scores, worries his white moustache. When all is ready, there is a pause. The orchestra waits for the little child to lead them. He is Ottavio Arturo Gallo, 8, son of Headmaster Gallo. In his life, he has not had time to learn how to read music. But he knows it by heart, so he needs no score. An observer crowded into the hallway might see the pale little fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conductor Gallo | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...little child shall lead them-a little girl child, dressed in white linen and lifting her head, blonde and bobbed, high above the multitude. Strong men shall weep and cameras shall click, for Christianity in the person of Uldine Utley is coming to the United States Fleet. When the sinning tar cries out "What shall I do to be saved"? his prophet will reply in soft feminine tones, histrionically imitative of the sensuous Semple McPherson and-of Sharon Falconer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILGRIMS' PROGRESS | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

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