Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard team had a four point lead over the Lincoin's Inn Society, its nearest rival, and needed to win but one match to clinch the title...
...Harry declared that international unfriendliness will lead to a war, just as it caused the last. "The politicians will start the thing," he said, "and then you'll have to go. And I know that you don't want to kill anybody. My boy didn't want to kill anybody, and yet he died in the trenches like...
...Crimson team made a valiant effort to retrieve the lost point, but Mosher, in the second, half of the period, increased the Maple's lead by a shot from a scrimmage directly in front of the Harvard net. The game was over 25 seconds later...
Heretofore Harvard has gone on the assumption that candidates who sought admission sought it for purposes of education, and it has logically made its standard for selection the absolute one of scholarship. The criterion has proved on the whole just and reasonable, and the report of the committee would lead to the suspicion that it recognizes no necessity for a radical departure...
...having his wife and children die in their home because an enemy he has never seen can drop a bomb on his city." There is another puzzler. I can't make out whether it is an argument for war or for peace. The preceding paragraphs of the editorial would lead one to believe that war was all right, in fact rather amusing and delightful until it became so horrible, so sort of unfair and uncertain. This business of the unseen enemy and all that, not at all the correct method of fighting, let's not have any more...