Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crews started even, both rowing about 34 to the minute. Then the excitement began. Coxswain Heard of the Junior eight called for a ten stroke sprint, and the yearlings responded with ten good ones. Heard, however, called for ten more, which put his crew a full length in the lead. The longer stroke of Coach Shaw enabled the Freshman to make up the distance--but the Seconds repeated their sprint and went into the lead again. These tactics won the race, every time the younger oarsmen came nearly even with his shell, Heard called, "Give her ten!". At the finish...
...must, therefore, do everything in our power to govern along new lines and to strive to make the Italian Chamber a model of Parliamentary institutions. Revolutions often obtain results different from those they at first intended. It is, therefore, possible that Fascismo, which began in opposition to Parliament, may lead to a new period of splendor of Parliament...
...Homeric (White Star)?Lady Diana Manners and her husband Alfred Duff Cooper; Cosmo Hamilton, dramatist and novelist, brother of Sir Philip Gibbs; George F. Baker, famed banker; Eberhard Faber (lead pencils) ; May Wilson Preston, illustrator...
...deluge of Purple hits and Purple runs landed on Spalding in the third inning. Five singles, a double by Carroll, a wild throw by Spalding, and two errors, of omission by his infielders let five runs across the plate and gave Holy Cross a safe lead. Cote, who made a homer in the Cambridge game, laced out a mate to it in the sixth inning for the last Holy Cross run. Todd had barely reached the ball when the batter scored...
...country's golfing best, at the end of the first day's play. His first 36 holes were completed in 147 strokes, the same number required by William Mehlhorn of St. Louis, who shared top-honors with the Harvard man, Jones was still in a tie for the lead after the first round today, his 75 giving him 222 for 54 holes. Meanwhile Walker, scoring his third successive 74, had the same total, and Mehlhorn was one stroke behind...