Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer, was asked to compete. Out of active competition for over two years . . . Turner was given two hours to brush up on his "school figures" and the following day ended up in second place, a good 30 points over third-placer Erie Reiter. The following night Turner maintained his lead by a sparkling free skating performance while Reiter dropped back into fourth position...
...Barry (Ross Alexander-) trade the songs they write for tailoring service, even piano rental, until a producer putting on Broadway shows with Hollywood backing is willing to advance $50,000 for their masterpiece, Fair Lady, provided they can sign the English singer, Jane Clarke (Winifred Shaw) for the lead. The anxiety of Agent J. Van Courtland (Allen Jenkins) to get 10% of Jane's $1,500 weekly salary leads him to sign up the wrong Jane Clarke (Ruby Keeler). This Jane, neither English nor a singer, accepts the misrepresentation because it offers her an opportunity to capitalize her talent...
...patient, eloquently reported Dr. Tucker last week on one of the strangest cases ever printed in the Virginia Medical Monthly, "She was a nice little girl in short dresses rocking in her chair. She lead simple things but rather badly; she craved attention; she laughed sometimes and at others she would cry a little. She talked childishly, pleasantly or was mischievous and delighted in trying to play jokes on or fool the doctors and nurses...
...prices in its commodity index had pushed above the average level prevailing in the boom years 1927-29. Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...
...slowed appreciably. Ominous reports that the British Government would step in, if speculators continued to boost the costs of rearmament, dampened London's ardor. But metals did not calm down until zinc had zoomed to the highest price in eleven years (7½ per lb.) and lead, in the heaviest trading in that heavy metal in the history of the New York Commodity Exchange, was whooped to 7¼? per lb., highest since...