Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little better than a failure and as a statesman, untried. His difficulties in stepping into the shoes of the late popular Mr. Massey are manifest. His friends in New Zealand, while wishing him the best of luck, are, therefore, dubious as to whether he is the right man to lead the Reform Party and head the Government...
...kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo. The whippersnapper was assuredly reckless, for the first 50 miles he led the roaring, crackling, reeking, spitting pack at a canter of 104 mi. an hour, was passed by Racer Cooper, took the lead again after Cooper had turned his $10,000 machine into a smear of debris against a concrete wall in the 124th lap. Would he learn no caution, that...
Starting off this afternoon with a 253 yard drive, Jones immediately jumped into a brand of golf, which though not quite as brilliant as he had shown in the morning; proved sufficiently stellar to lead a field of sweltering players. Jones and Hagen got 74's in the final eighteen, while Ouimet brought home a 76, and McFarlane petered down to a 78 in company with Farrell...
...eighteen this morning he kept to the standard of 70 which he set for himself in the second round, and thus when the third round ended at noon had climbed to fourth place with a total of 217 for the 54 holes, only four strokes behind McFarlane's lead...
...University jumped away to a lead in the second inning, when Rogers singled and Burgess sent him home with a long triple to left. These were the first hits for the Crimson, which col- lected at least one in each of the succeeding innings. The Pine Tree State mine, however, wiped out this lead and piled up a seemingly sufficient one for itself in the fourth and fifth innings, each of which saw two Bates runs cross the plate...