Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article described the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to detect the adulteration of olive oil with tea seed oil. It described the operation of the so-called Fitelson test. The serious vice of this article is that it is so constructed as to lead the average reader to conclude that measured by this test our client's product was not pure olive...
...Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen on the screen-tempts Maine to an appropriately exhibitionistic suicide, leaving Esther to a Hollywood funeral in which an admirer steals her veil...
...Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...
...rise was insignificant compared to the gyrations lately in other metals. But aluminum was not deflated so-severely as copper, lead or zinc. In 1929 aluminum sold for 28?, was at 19? at its Depression...
...faculty is on the whole available, though shyness on the part of a few might lead to the impression that they resented intrusions. They are all pretty active in research and are definitely interested in the undergraduate and his problems if he manifeats real interest in the subject...