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Word: lead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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These steps: would prevent the commission of a grave injustice. They would forestall the loss of the most popular and successful teacher in Fine Arts. But beyond this, they would possibly lead to fundamental changes in the department which, in view of its unparalleled resources, would make Harvard one of the world's leading centers of art culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF SIX | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...said that anything coming from Harvard is likely to arouse local opposition and that he was willing that others take the lead in opposing what President Conant has called an "offensive piece of legislation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Refuses to Fight on Issue of Teachers' Oath Repeal | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...time to deal with the sufferings and the crisis of the Jewish race. Too much emotion has been wasted and vented on empty gestures. The Independents want to lead the way toward examining the problem impartially and setting it internationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDEPENDENTS SPONSOR JEWISH REFUGEE PLAN | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

...whose grasping relatives had insured them for a total of nearly $100,000, and given Herman Petrillo the job of making the policies pay out. Thoroughly professional, Mr. Petrillo, said witnesses, shopped around for cheap killers, worked not only with arsenic but with sandbags, faked hit-&-run accidents, a lead pipe so ingeniously designed that it could bash in a skull to look as if the victim had fallen downstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Petrillo's Job | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...mile combine got off to an early lead, but Manhattan forged ahead to win by a 40 yard margin. It was only in the final lap, however, that Ros Brayton, Crimson anchorman, was hiped by Curtis Giddings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mile Relay Team Outclasses Yale in Thriller at Garden | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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