Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people in English drawing-rooms know a great lot on all manner of subjects, and that what they know they know thoroughly; but I see no outcome - no result. Indeed, I know a score of Oxford fellows who are in society insipid and flat. They are socially heavy as lead...
...freshman crew is one that should encourage all succeeding crews with good hopes for victory. How strong an opponent the freshmen will find in Columbia's freshman crew it is of course impossible to conjecture. The New York university will certainly make a strong effort to maintain the lead gained last year. The foot-ball record that '86 has already made should encourage the class to still greater efforts in other branches of sport...
...intimacy which one enjoys with men of the same general turn of mind, and the possible benefits derived from such intercourse. It gives a certain social and intellectual tone to men, more or less appreciable according to their resistance or pliancy of character. There are some who lead the opinions and others who will rise to the average of their companions. This is an almost realized Utopia...
Prosaic, cold, dull thing of lead...
...curious paralellism to this expression occurs in the last Yale Courant, which cries out: "The day seems rapidly approaching when the HERALD and and the News shall lie down together, and the little Crimson shall lead them." ("Little" Crimson because of the recent article on "Yaleism...