Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Withal, they wrapped him round and round to be a perfect mummy, and lifted him into a box heavy as lead but golden, wherein they also put innumerable amulets of beauty and ghostly merit, as well as two swords, jewel-studded...
...next two years who will not have completed their elementary studies before entering college. It would also give preparatory and high schools sufficient time to make up deficiencies in these studies on the schedules of prospective Harvard Freshman entering in 1928 and thereafter. Moreover, such a procedure would lead the way in the much needed raising of secondary school standards, by throwing the burden of elementary preparation squarely where it belongs. For some small college to take such an arbitrary step would simply put that college outside the general scheme of things, educationally speaking. But Harvard is in a different...
...race between Tibbetts and Loucks of Syracuse, was a close one the whole length of the course and until the finish a very uncertain one. It was the Crimson leader who crossed the line a bare three yards in the lead, with Hillman of Maine, the nearest competitor to the two, 75 yard behind...
Like the rays of radium, the Millikan Rays, wherever they are present in any quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...
...needed to go. In the next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible for big W. H. Edwards ("Peter Pan of Princeton") to climb down from the stands and lead a writhing battalion to tear down the goal posts for souvenirs. Score: Princeton 25, Yale...