Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking ahead four years, one sees few leaders among the Democrats who now show signs of ability to lead the Party out of the wilderness. Mr. McAdoo, back on the Pacific, is already reported to be lining up his forces for a new attack in 1928-the first step of which, it is said, will be an attempt to remove Clem L. Shaver as Democratic National Chairman. In the East, Governor Al Smith has a claim because he rewon his state by 100,000 votes and ran some 900,000 ahead of Davis. In the Middle West, Governor A. Victor...
Next morning, things were more favorable for him. He took a sight. The official count was put off for a week. In the unofficial count, Brookhart had 447,523 votes to Steck's 446,407-a lead of a bare 1,100 votes. The Presidential vote, however, was Coolidge 515,759, LaFollette 259,742, Davis...
Captain Bell and Coach Campbell will be the speakers for the occasion. The cheering will be led by A. H. O'Neil '28, recently appointed Freshman cheer leader by the Student Council. Dr. A. W. Wright '17 will lead the football songs, music for which, will be furnished by Freshman members of the University band...
...society endeavors to raise the intellectual tone of the entire undergraduate body by rewarding the activity of those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments...
...some time experiments have been going forward in an effort to improve gasoline as an automobile fuel. A motor entirely of glass was constructed to study the explosions in gas engines. It was observed that there was not one explosion in a cylinder but two, in close succession. Various lead compounds were mixed with gasoline and tested to improve the operation. It was found that if 1 part of tetraethyl lead were added to 1,000 parts of gasoline, the effect was to retard the explosions- providing one slower detonation instead of two more rapid ones. This improvement prevents "knocking...