Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson batters tallied five runs in their half of the initial frame. Nugent walked, McGrath flied out, and Donaghy singled, sending the diminutive lead-off man to third. The Harvard captain stole to the key-stone sack just before Ticknor was handed a free pass to first. Whitney then banged out a safety, scoring Nugent. The next play produced two more runs. Gilligan poked a grounder at pitcher White whose throw home to cut off Donaghy went wide of its mark, letting in the third baseman and Ticknor, while Gilligan scampered to the hot corner. He subsequently stole home when...
This work has been so successful that it has been, recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, and Kinogram has taken cinema pictures of classroom work in aeronautics at this school and displayed them all over the country. Many schools are beginning to follow this lead in every state...
...Davies took a 1-up lead on his 7th hole with George Duncan, halved the next eleven holes...
...Andrew's. By lunch time Golfer Collett was two up. But Miss Wethered, after a lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt to halve. She putted. For the first twelve feet the ball rolled...
Poet Masters is seldom so "poetic" as that. He is more particularly a creator of people in laconic, lead-colored phrases...