Word: leader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's inspirational leader, Bill Stack, was one of the great pivot men of the year, but Frick of penn pushed him hard for top honors. Stack lifted the Eli linemen to great heights on many occasions and saved them from open collapse in other games...
...point. Shaw speaks of the ills of the industry that forced him to leave. These exist. But they weren't made to order for Arthur Shaw. Everyone in the business knows about them and allows for them. Shaw had been playing for enough years when he started as a leader to know what he was up against. The plain facts are that he didn't have any guts. Goodman didn't change his style to get to the top--he stuck to his guns and starved far longer than Shaw to get to the top. Count Basie played...
Browder entered the hall by a back entrance because 3,000 persons jammed the two front entrances. As he spoke the crowd outside raised a bedlam, shouting "Viva Hitler" and "Go back to Moscow." The Communist leader several times had to raise his voice to make himself heard inside...
...gridiron squad has already hung up its moleskins for good, and its last act will be to elect the 1940 leader. This afternoon at 3 o'clock 22 lettermen meet in Dillon Field House and cast their ballots to find a successor to ill-fated Torbie Macdonald...
...always hard to decide to what extent an influential artistic figure is a product of the period in which he lives and, on the other hand, to what extent he has instigated and furthered the tendencies of his time. Strawinsky, however, has certainly been the leader in developing the aesthetic attitude which has prevailed among musicians in the last two decades. By various methods--from vague and theoretical presentation of his views as in the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, to his more specific writings and the practical application of his ideas in his compositions themselves--he has encouraged the concept...