Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plump and snowy-haired Liberals of international fame aired publicly last week the great party schism which has slowly widened between them since the Boer War. Even at that period Mr. Lloyd George?an irrepressible pro-Boer "was attempting to lead the Liberal party leftward, while the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself...
...shrewdness characteristic of Krim betokened the born statesman who had summoned his brother M'hammed ben AbdEl Krim, unquestionably a born general, to lead the forces which they collected about them by intrigue among the Riffian chiefs between...
Further analysis snowed Cleveland's lead to be due to the fact that it played so little 18th Century music; that the Boston Symphony, under Serge Kousseviyzky, led in 20th Century music, with Chicago next under Frederick Stock, and the New York Symphony next. Chicago has played the greatest proportion of the classics, with Philadelphia next; and Detroit, under Ossip Gabrilowitsch, leads in the 19th Century. The percentages...
...after the Harvard ball game to watch the crew race. Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton had their eights lined up near the dam. In the shimmering twilight they pushed out from the referee's launch, the three crews rhythmically beating their way through the quiet waters. Pennsylvania took the lead. At the half mile it became evident to the colorful gallery that the conqueror of Harvard the preceding week would win as she pleased. The red and blue pressed on inexorably under steady stroking to win, by three and a half lengths from Princeton, by seven lengths from Columbia...
Ellsworth Charles Haggerty '27 of Allston, intercollegiate mile champion for two consecutive years, was chosen yesterday to lead the University track team in 1927. The election was held when the team gathered at Notman's Studio for the annual picture...