Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether a social science concentrator or not, who feels qualified to lead a roundtable discussion on one of the topics listed below will be given consideration. The three tables for which chairmen have not yet been picked are "The Maintenance of Employment," "The Government of Competitive Enterprise," and "Government Revenue and Expenditure...
Free offer of a hermetically sealed box by a firm was vetoed by President Conant, because of the danger that lack of air might lead to chemical decomposition of the contents. But for the 1936 president who knows his chemistry, the 2036 president might ceremoniously open a box full of dust...
...Bernardino publisher (James A. Guthrie), James Kelley Guthrie early took lessons on the flute, "not because I was particularly interested in it but because it was expected of me." A trip to San Francisco, where he heard Hertz lead the Symphony Orchestra, fanned his interest. At 15 he rounded up 60 professional, amateur and retired musicians, hired 30 more from Los Angeles, to make the San Bernardino Community Orchestra. Two years later he began to lead it. Meantime he was in demand for local theatre orchestras, went on tour playing and conducting for Actress Olga Baclanova. In 1931 he entered...
Guthrie scraped together an 82-piece orchestra, and with a single rehearsal led it irreproachably through the opera, took a total of 40 bows by the final curtain. Well-pleased, Impresario Frank promised that Guthrie will lead an opera every month, the next to be Samson & Delilah. Determined Guthrie: "If I have anything to say about it, it will be sung in English. All American opera should be sung in English. What good are words if people can't understand them...
...typewriting bureau, headed by Clyde Lewis, takes the lead in the upward trend, evidenced by its handling at more Law School work so far this rear than in all of last year...