Word: led
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University players started scoring in the first inning. On an error, L. B. Evans '20, reached second base, and scored on a sacrifice hit, followed by a single by L. P. Jones '19. Again in the third inning, Jones led off with his second single, and before the inning was over three runs had come in through three singles, a stolen base, and an error...
...Yesterday, on the last day at Catoosa, the five best men of each company were made into teams for a battalion competition--we shot 10 shots at 300 yds. slow fire, and my score 46 in 50 led by 1 point, which makes me top in the battalion. My score in shots...
...second and third companies tied on team averages, and to settle the score, each man shot one shot--we tied a second time, I shooting another 5. A second shot to each man gave us (Co.2) the lead by one point, 20 to 19. So our Company led the hike home, a thing that our Captain desired more than anything else. In 57 shots that I fired in all, I made only one 3,--all the rest, 4 and 5." EUSTACE L. FLORANCE...
Military drill is in general hard, unpleasant work. To carry a gun on the shoulder is not an exhilarating task. There is none of the glory of the gridiron. Yet even such labor becomes enjoyable when troops are well led,--when they have an inspiration. Lieutenant Morize was our ideal last year; we are confident that during this year he will once more lead us to battle on the marshes of Waverly and through the clay of Belmont...
This is a great age, perhaps a monstrous age, perhaps a divine age, but surely to be admired, even by the most stupid. Nations go to war for purposes which they but dimly feel, led on by wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...