Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been profoundly disturbed this past fortnight by the pronouncement issued by Professor Bridgman at Harvard relative to the exchange of scientific information with totalitarian countries. . . . My apprehension has developed for two reasons. The first is that this statement may lead the general public to believe that such an attitude has been generally adopted by scientists . . . (and) secondly I feel that this manifesto represents in a way a rising tide of hatred and intolerance...
...Wrote the Führer: "In Germany before the war, in the schools, in the press and in the comic newspapers, one gradually created an impression of the character of the Englishman, and perhaps more even of his empire, which was bound to lead to the most disastrous self-deception. This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital. ... I remember how astounded were the faces of my comrades when for the first time we met the Tommy face to face in Flanders...
...went into court in London, where Mr. Justice Sir Charles Bennett was informed in an affidavit that the Group "consists of a wholly indefinite and unascertainable number of persons who possess no organization and no secretary or treasurer or officer of any kind . . '. and who are endeavoring to lead a spiritual quality of life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit...
While Goodman and Shaw lead in current hot-fan popularity, challengers of their positions are not wanting. High on the list of contenders is the well-balanced band fronted by Singer Bob Crosby. The Bob Cats, exponents of a modernized Dixieland Style, are well-regarded by discerning swing fans. Another potential champion is the band headed by diminutive Bobby Hackett, whose graceful, sure trumpet, as well as his down-the-middle hair-comb and tiny mustache, is reminiscent of the late great Bix Beiderbecke...
...hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed rubber from a scientist's plaything to one of mankind's most useful commodities. Today there are some 35,000 uses for rubber, 4,000,000 people are employed in the industry and its world-wide investment comes to $2,698,000,000. Greatest concentration of this great sum is found in Ohio's 122 rubber factories and last week in Akron, "rubber capital of the world," the industry...