Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of popular opportunity Soviet Russia takes the lead in democratic government today. Not on the standard of the comfortable peasant of the United States are Russian workers well off, declared the lecturer, but in contrast to the sharecropper in Arkansas they have a "richer, fuller life; they have hope...
Alice Plimpton will play the feminine lead, as Iris Crew, the heroine, while L. J. Profit, veteran of dramatic productions on stages from Australia to Bermuda, will be the Vicar, the principal masculine role. Oliver T. Simpkins '40, and Peggy Eastell are the King and Queen, and Robert Solo '39 will play the General. Alfonse Ossorio '38, designer of the Hasty Pudding Show, John Barnard '39, Richard H. Seymer '39 as "The Dog", Stephen Greene '37, last president of the Club, David F. Parry '38, and J. David Lightbody '40, president of the Freshman Class, are other outstanding members...
According to the Council's strike call, "The strike (and walkout) is in no way directed against the University, but is rather a militant and orderly expression of the determination of students to oppose all plans which would lead us into another world slaughter." The Cambridge meeting is being followed by a second anti-war gathering of all greater Boston colleges on the Common at 12 o'clock...
Beginning this morning the first of the series of articles on the various field of concentration which will go to make up the Crimson Confidential Guide appears. In every sense the Anthropology Department lends itself to the lead-off position in the series, not only because of its alphabetical priority, but because it is in general one of those closely knit and efficient units that form the academic body of which Harvard is justly proud. There are short-comings, to be sure,--and these are frankly dealt with in the article,--but, by and large, Anthropology is a pleasure...
...prices were entirely too high (TIME, April 12). As an experiment in talking down inflation, the President's pronouncement had by last week proved a notable success. His words touched off a world-wide break in commodities which left copper 1½? below its 17? -per-lb. high, lead off 1¼? (high: 7¾? per lb.), rubber off nearly 3#162; (high: 27#162; per lb.), wheat off 6#162; (high: $1.45). Most other staples tumbled proportionately, while the stockmarket took the deepest dive in nearly three years. At week's end such speculative stalwarts...