Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time; they are not brought on or aggravated by exercise; there is no sign of organic heart disease; they disappear when coffee is withdrawn from the diet. Dr. Levy cited two cases: a doctor and a lawyer, both of whom suffered from coffee pains for years but continued to lead active lives without further ill effect when they quit drinking coffee...
Laughlin applauds the sociological approach of Chase to language and quickly adds that linguistic change must lead the way for social change. Regarding language from the poet's point of view, he recognizes its value as the life-breath of civilization and also its mortality. But language has become the master of thinking, and to check this corruption Laughlin advocates a system of education that will teach words and ideas separately. His ideas no language and experimental writing--which tries to remedy language deficiency--form one of the essays in his volume. It is convenient to criticize the other work...
There are those who say that even if isolation is economically possible, the attitude of the people in time of crisis would inevitably lead us into war, the people being too stupid and impressionable to withstand harmful propaganda. If this is so, then why was the proportion of voluntary enlistment during the last war higher among college students than among any other similar age group in the whole country? Evidently, a college education is no guarantee of being unimpressionable with respect to propaganda...
Friend Bill. Said Hudson Motor's president, heavy-jawed A. (for Abraham, which he dislikes) Edward Barit: "If the automobile industry was able to lead the way out of the Depression, it seems reasonable to expect it to do something about leading the way out of the Recession. . . . While there are confidence-inspiring moves of a general nature that can and should be made, there is one specific job for industry...
...feature senior indoor polo league game of the evening, Harvard and Candlewood jockeyed for the lead, Harvard coming up from behind twice. For Harvard, Jack Lewis '40, No. 1 featured on the defense. Lewis tallied two goals, Dillingham three, and Stabler three...