Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend E. C. Moore, Parkman Professor of Theology and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus will conduct the services tonight while Dean Willard Learoy Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers will lead the services tomorrow afternoon and evening...
...final standing in the fall Freshman interdormitory series, Gore Hall was shown to be in the lead, having a total of 22 points, Standish second with 20 1-2 points, and Smith and McKinlock third and fourth with 18 and 13 1-2 points respectively...
Vonckx, who started from search, threw the weight 46 feet 6 inches, after which was Bennett's toss of 41 feet 10 inches, including a 13 foot handicap. Finlayson, with a three foot lead was measured at 40 feet 2 inches...
...jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window...
...were last week exhibited in Manhattan. The picador, the ostrich, La Femme-Chatte, were absent; Sculptor de Creeft no longer seeks to shock. Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...