Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth and fifth ballots found Smith and Underwood alternately in the lead but their margin over the others was more negligible than before. It was on the sixth ballot that Senator Glass first showed his strength...
Coach Davidson juggled his line up before yesterday's game, putting Durant in left-field and lead-off position in the batting order, and using Tobin at first instead of behind the plate. Duchin accordingly donned the catcher's mask...
When balloting was recommenced, the interest of the crowd began to grow. The second ballot was much the same as the first which was taken on the preceding evening, except that Governor Smith of New York, supported by the "wet" members of the convention, took the lead from Senator Underwood. On the third ballot, former Ambassador Davis was ahead, but after this the three principal candidates nullified each other's votes and it became evident that a dark horse would be the ultimate winner...
...first Junior eight retained the lead as far as the mile and one-quarter mark, where the Sophomores, despite the high waves, took the lead. The line-up of the winning crew follows: stroke, Gale; 7, Hubbard; 6, Macomber; 5, Leavitt; 4, Darlington; 3, Barton; 2, Tilt; bow, Krumbhaar; cox., Haper...
...Often today," Professor Morize went on, "the most difficult thing is not to do one's duty, but to know what that duty is. A first class character will strongly desire to do his duty, but with a second class brain it may lead to a bad mistake. I find that in American colleges and universities thinking too often appears as an incidental result of knowledge, rather than as the main and essential aim of education...