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Word: lead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close to losing when, on the next to the last deal, two members of the team went down 200 points on a vulnerable four-spade contract, cutting their final lead to only 230 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Aces | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Person.With a voice that booms like Big Ben's but a laugh like a youngster's giggle, Orson Welles plays lead off stage as well as on. He loves the mounting Welles legend, but wants to keep the record straight. Stories of his recent affluence-the Big House at Sneden's Landing, N. Y., the luxurious Lincoln town car and chauffeur-annoy him. First of all, Welles insists, this has nothing to do with his Mercury triumphs; for years he has had these things by virtue of his radio earnings; and second, the Big House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...runtiest stunt cinema has ever attempted, Producer Jed Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cineminiatures | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Following the morning exercises, the Seniors will have luncheon together at the Houses. Luncheon will be served for guests also. After lunch, the twenty-fifth reunion class will lead the parade of Harvard alumni to the Stadium at 1:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATION WEEK LOOMS LARGE ON SPRING CALENDAR | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

Reporting sorry figures to its stock-lolders, many a company took occasion to snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Quarter | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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