Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictators Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler lead the world in making millions of young people take healthful exercise whether they want to or not. but Neville Chamberlain was too wise to ask his British audience to look with admiration on the bronzed, athletic youth of any place except Scandinavia. "I am afraid," cried tentative Orator Chamberlain, "that in this matter [physical culture] some other nations, and especially Scandinavians, have got ahead of us, but I am confident we shan't be long in making up for lost time! ... I appeal for a concentrated and determined crusade against ignorance, carelessness...
...year's high. Panicky selling spread to other metals, first in London, then the U. S. Two successive cuts in U. S. copper left the price at 12? per lb., compared to the March high of 17?. Zinc fell from 7¼? per lb. to 6½? and lead to 6? per lb., having touched 7½? early this year...
...Last week there was little indication that the pound would not remain reasonably stable, but there was fear that the franc, down last week to a new eleven-year low, might eventually topple the pound (see p. 24). In the long view, sinking foreign currencies may be inflationary, may lead to another cut in the dollar. But immediate effects, as Herbert Hoover liked to point out after Britain left gold in 1931, are sometimes unpleasantly deflationary...
...originally introduced, the tutorial system involved a considerable amount of inefficiency and deficiency. The report of Dean Hanford a year ago was an excellent beginning of improvement; the History Department, the first to inaugurate the Modified Tutorial Plan, followed this lead in the spring. With Professor Burbank's announcement the Economics Department has contributed a third step towards the evolution of the Tutorial System at Harvard, thus bringing the intellectual development of the individual closer to the ideal...
Dave Simboli and John Johnson scored goals in the second period to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead. Staging a second half push the Textiles finished in front although Johnson scored again in the third quarter...