Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S support of our exciting air growth to support a program for the development of a "safety spirit" among potential airplane passengers. It is no mystery that there exists today the prevalent and discouraging belief that planes are still dangerous. Why couldn't TIME take the lead in dispelling this blight on progress? If any organ...
...walls of most of the throat, of the windpipe and its branches (bronchi and bronchioles) are covered with fine, threadlike filaments called cilia, which continually move, waving their tips with an upward motion. When bismuth powders or pulverized lead glass were blown deep into the lungs of anesthetized cats, Dr. Barclay and his associates found that the dust in dry form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from...
...whole uncertain business of radio, broadcasters of house programs lead the most uncertain careers. And of all such radio ephemera, none is more ephemeral than the studio book critic. Efforts to put book talk on the air have generally been short-lived...
...latest Federal Reserve index of industrial production (for April) stood at 17, down two points from March. Statisticians guessed that by last week it had dropped another point or two. Other metals besides copper reflected this trend: Scrap steel and tin were off slightly for the week, lead was down to 4? a pound from...
...prince of swashbucklers, Errol Flynn, plays the lead in the real Douglas Fairbanks manner, winning his duels, his lady love, and the cheers of the multitude all in the same breathless instant...