Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasional lapses when it has strayed after false gods. In the future we shall endeavor to eliminate these periodical departures," said Nichols. He explained further that this is not being done with any idea of reform or with the thought that the Lampoon's mission is to take the lead in abolishing "smut" in college comics, but perhaps more in an attempt to be original...
During the next few days the length of the runs will be gradually increased, and this training, along with special setting-up exercises, will lead up to the work at Belmont, which will start in about two weeks. Soon after that, there will be a special Interdormitory meet for all the members of the Freshman squad...
...SINGING BONE? R. Austin Freeman?Dodd Mead ($1.75). Four short detective stories?the first three told from an unusual point of view, for one first follows the criminal through the commission of his crime and then traces out the clues that lead to his detection. The detective concerned specializes in microscopy and captures one canny villain from the infinitesimal evidence offered by the hair of a camel. Among the best of this year's crop of Sherlockings...
...Russia's most celebrated orchestra director," "the only great European conductor whose performances have not been heard in America," Serge Kussevitzky, is to come to America. It is announced that he will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the season beginning in 1924. He will be the first Russian who ever conducted that orchestra...
Three large murals by James E. McBurney, Chicago artist, were installed in the new Federal Bank and Trust Co., Dubuque, Ia. They represent Dubuque, the French trader, being shown the lead mines of the region by Sauk and Fox Indians; the first steamboat going up the Mississippi, watched with awe and premonition by aborigines on the bluff; the old ferry which bore the pioneer settlers in their " covered wagons " across the great river near Dubuque...