Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edouard Daladier. "It is the unanimous wish that if war breaks out again it should not be, as in the past, a source of huge profits for some while others are making sacrifices of their lives. We hope that our example will be followed by other nations and thus lead to the reduction of armaments. . . . War must not be a source of scandalous profit. We want peace, but the peace we desire is the peace of free men and not of slaves...
Whose racing stable will lead the 1936 list of winners is a question that will he decided next Jan. 1. Whose stable will appear at the bottom of the list will probably never be known, but a likely candidate will certainly be John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin, famed sporting alderman of Chicago. Mr. Coughlin races a stable of 29 horses in and around Chicago. Last week at Arlington Park a Coughlin-owned filly named Roguish Girl won a race. The fact made banner headlines on Chicago sports pages. It was the first race won by a Coughlin entry this year...
...their output for aging, kept their eyes on the day-around 1939-when they would have enough good bonded whiskey saved up to offer at low prices. Entering the field at Repeal with more than half the liquor then available in the U. S., National Distillers kept a long lead in whiskey stocks, had 43,000,000 gal. of whiskey aging in its warehouses last Jan. 1. In volume of business, however, National's lead has been taken away by aggressive Schenley Distillers whose 1935 sales were $63,000,000 compared to National...
...realistic details that distinguish her historical romances. Since it is laid in the reign of King Olav, when Norway was undergoing the transition from paganism to Christianity, it also reveals Sigrid Undset's profound religious feeling, is an early expression of the devotion that was eventually to lead her to write thesis novels for the Catholic Church...
...cage when he returned from Elba, joined him instead with his whole army. After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned to a traitor's death. Following the execution his corpse lay on the ground for a quarter-hour, was then delivered to his family who placed it in a lead casket, buried it without ceremony in an unmarked grave in Paris' Pere-Lachaise Cemetery...