Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale was far in the lead as Dartmouth's keenest rival. Smith was picked as the favorite women's college, with Vassar and Wellesley tied for second place...
...Lead and carbon monoxide are the most prevalent forms of poison. The latter is found in garages of course, and also in steel mills and coal mines. It is, in fact, found wherever gas is used. Unfortunately there are new poisons appearing all the time, but there is no governmental agency to investigate them. If a manufacturer wants to find out the quality of a rubber solvent, he can write to the Bureau of Standards; if he wants to find out the effects the solvent will have on his workmen, however, he is at a complete loss. Consequently he starts...
...white gloves, pin three feathers in their hair and go to Buckingham Palace this Spring, will make their bows to Queen Mary alone, the Lord Chamberlain announced. There will be but one throne in the throne room at this year's formal courts. The Prince of Wales will lead his mother to the dais and then take his place in the family circle, below the dais and to one side...
...Last week, also, an increase of capital stock by $500,000,000 was planned by directors of mighty A. T. & T. Stockholders surmised that this move, like those of U. S. Steel and Anaconda, might lead to bond redemption. A. T. & T. will thus break one more world's record in size. It will be the first corporation with $2,000,000,000 capital...
That good athletes are apt to be good students, that Harvard track men as a group, lead all other Crimson athletes in the class-room, and that football players at Harvard are consistently poor scholars, are conclusions to be deduced from the first intensive study of scholastic standings of Harvard athletes, figures of which were made public this morning by H. W. Clark '23, Assistant Athletic Director at Harvard, who under the Bingham regime has been acting as a link between the H. A. A. and University Hall...