Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, the Mohammedan seemed stunned. Then suddenly Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji came to himself and without jittering or trembling gave his British judge with upraised arm the salute of Oriental warriors. As two wardens came to lead him from the prisoner's dock, Ratanji gave the same salute to the uncomfortable, astonished British jury...
Wild ducks suffer from bad marksmen as well as from good ones. Shot that falls into the water sinks to the bottom where ducks mistake it for roughage such as gravel or sand. They eat it, die a month or so later of paralysis caused by lead poisoning...
Because they believe that one-third as many ducks die from being poisoned as from being shot by bullets, Professors Robert Gladding Green and Ralph Dowdell of the University of Minnesota set out to save ducks by devising a healthy bullet. Last week they had perfected one. Their bullet: lead magnesium alloy, which dissolves less than 48 hours after it is eaten, before the lead causes anything worse than indigestion...
Aida Barona, prima ballerina, was the outstanding member of the cast. Dancing lead roles in both "Prometheus" and "Hollywood", she showed an excellence that can be favorably compared with many of the dancers of the Ballet Russe. When it is considered that the group had been dancing for only a little more than three years, its faults in technique may be easily forgiven...
Following the lead of the "Veterans of Future Wars," a group of Vassar students have banded together to form the "Gold Star Mothers of Future Wars" and are demanding a trip to France to see the future graves of their unborn sons. --NEWS ITEM...