Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Author Lawrence looks into life as a mystical physiologist. He would lead men back through the wombs of the ages to the birthday of the species, lest they forget the elements of their nature. For him, good and evil lie far underneath manners and exist only where the primal passions are pure or emasculate. St. Mawr, the burning bay stallion, incarnates the Lawrentian purity as has no other creature...
...eight hours, at 85 miles an hour, they flew, always north. They had used nearly half their gasoline. If the planes were ever to take them home again, they must descend. And there below them the first streak of blue seen in eight hours indicated water, a "lead" in the pack ice. Down nosed Amundsen in the N-25, the N24 following suit. Suddenly, a break in the steady roar of the motors, as startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could...
...disappeared. Amundsen found her next day on the other side of the "lead." The ice closed in on her and crushed her promptly...
Washington quickly pulled ahead and maintained the lead for three quarters of the course. The U. S. Naval Academy's crew followed closely, gradually pulled even, finally won by a length. Washington was second; Wisconsin, third; Pennsylvania, fourth; Syracuse, fifth; Cornell, sixth; Columbia, seventh...
...lead swam a figure darker than the most deeply sunburned, an Hawaiian duke, Kahanamoku of Olympic fame. Before him, as he swam, he pushed his long surf board...