Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houses when spring sports were just starting, but then they went into a slump and let Lowell pull away to gain the crown. This year, they were again in the van in March, but unlike the season before, they swept everything before them to pile up a substantial lead on the Bellboys...
Winthrop scored in every event except the 880 and the pole vault, taking four first places. Leverett likewise missed only twice, and it was this all-round ability that enabled these two Houses to pile up a substantial lead over the others...
...Negro press rejoiced when Congressman Mitchell filed his suit. Arthur W. Mitchell was out to end the iniquitous Jim Crow system, they crowed in their lead stories. But when newshawks talked to him in Washington they found out differently. His complaint, it seemed, was not with the South's segregation laws, but with the roads that provide inferior accommodations for segregated Negroes when the laws specify equal accommodations. Indeed, he said, he could find no fault with some of the roads that do business in the South...
...with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum in his column: "Your correspondent always has been inclined to have too much lead in the wrong places...
...task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory systems in 33 States which in fact were not discriminatory; 2) would lead to anti-anti-discriminatory laws, bringing about a set of State tariff barriers the like of which had not been thought of since Colonial days...