Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belgians opened their newspapers one morning last week to read that handsome King Leopold III and his brother Prince Charles would next day lead a pilgrimage of many thousands to Marche-les-Dames where King Albert three years ago fell to his death from a mountain (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934), that the widowed Queen Mother Elisabeth would visit the spot after the pilgrims had gone. Troops, war veterans, civilian organizations were to be drawn up in solemn silence while King Leopold reviewed them...
There was one minute left to play. The score at the half had been Purdue 24, Minnesota 14. Now it was Purdue 32, Minnesota 31. Would Minnesota's rally -five baskets in six minutes-win? Or could Purdue hold its tiny lead until the whistle...
...Luisetti brought his total points for the past two and a half years to 1,072. He needs only seven more in three more games to break the Conference season record of 186. The Pacific Coast Conference is divided into a Northern and Southern section. If Stanford holds its lead in one more game against California, two more against U. S. C., which has lost only two Conference games this year, its opponent from the Northern division in a two-out-of-three-game series for the Conference championship is likely to be either Oregon or Washington State, which last...
...Keeney hopes to enable the Church to budget $12,000,000 in 1940. Last week Bishop Keeney was well satisfied with efforts to date: 227,000 units pledged. Spiritually, according to the Bishop, "Methodism is preparing to take the offensive again," and the Million Unit Fellowship is designed to lead Methodists toward a better social order, "a Christian way" between Fascism and Communism. At this concept Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, perhaps the world's greatest Methodist and the leader of the National Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches...
Before the match, the Freshman squashmen elected Kim de Souza Canavarro of Queenstown, Maryland, and Middlesex School, to lead them into the Yale match at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow at the Linden Street courts...