Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judges decided on the merit of the twelve after short speeches and briefs on the Supreme Court were submitted. To separate those who will lead the debate from the alternates a third tryout will be held in Lowell House tonight at 7:30 o'clock in which five minute talks and the presentation of new arguments will be required...
...court, Hock Sim Ong's opponent was tall, 24-year-old Walter Kramer of the Detroit Badminton Club, rated by professionals as the ablest U. S. amateur for the last two years. The first game went to Kramer, 15-10. In the second Sim Ong got a lead of 4-1, then apparently forgot all he knew about the game while his opponent ran out 14 points in a row for match & title. Prettiest girl player in the tournament, slim, brunette Mrs. Del Barkhuff of Seattle, was also the most proficient. Using a skyrocket serve that sometimes nearly...
...unemployed need to be employed in durable goods industries."* Since the pump of heavy industry had been fully primed, no one seriously objected to a cessation of Government spending for that purpose. But to shift the spending into consumer channels only delayed the effect, since increased consumption would soon lead to expansion and modernization of nondurable goods industries, thus in turn stimulating the demand for durable goods. What seemed to be needed at this stage of Recovery, said most economists, was less Government spending all around. Cried President Frank Purnell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube: "If the President means to save...
...Book. Nervous readers will find The Years not nearly such heavy going as their knowledge or hearsay of Virginia Woolf might lead them to expect. Unlike some of her other books, The Years is not experimental. It is written ''straight." Superficially, it is the telescoped chronicle of a London family-an upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length...
...Navy the situation was reversed and the Mitchelmen blow a four run first frame lead to lose 12-10 in seven innings. Weak pitching combined with unusually loose playing afield brought Harvard to defeat...