Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of thought to the student, and can help to jolt loose many of the biases that have been based on ignorance. It can give him some ability to pick the right material for future reading, and more important still, awaken a new interest in him which will lead to a desire for more of this type of reading, even if it is only the political news in the daily press. Finally, by starting this train of consequences, it should enable him to vote more intelligently and take part in discussions with greater ability...
...sixteen men added to the chapter represent 10 different fields of concentration. History and Literature with three lead. Chemistry, Bio-Chemistry, Government and Philosophy, and Sociology had two apiece, while there was one man in Mathematics, Philosophy, Economics, Government, and English...
...Drug addiction does not lead to perpetration of violent crimes. Said Dr. Lawrence Kolb, top man in the field: "Both heroin and morphine in large doses change drunken, fighting psychopaths into sober, cowardly, nonaggressive idlers. . . ." High cost of bootleg drugs, however, practically forces addicts of small incomes to resort to sneak thievery ("rooting on the derrick...
...Cracked down on the wood-cased lead pencil industry. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Lead Pencil Assn. Inc., President William A. McDermid and 13 member companies which account for more than 90% of U. S. production, charged them with price fixing, unlawfully restricting, monopolizing and eliminating competition after a 1935-36 price...
...snob story of a mannequin whose social ambitions make a moral and financial wreck of her surgeon-husband. It is a good example of nearly automatic writing. Its only discernible purpose is to keep Author Hichens' income at about $25,000 a year and enable him to lead the comfortable cosmopolitan bachelor existence to which he has become accustomed...