Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John A. Simourian, first Class Marshal, will lead the class to the Quadrangle, assisted by Second Marshal Charlton MacVeagh, Jr., and Third Marshal Edward M. Abramson. The exercises will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will be open to the public. Music for the occasion will be provided by the Harvard Band...
...played it safe: he pulled in for the third time. Just 34 seconds later the Belond was filled with gas, oil and water, three of its tires had been replaced and it was rolling on new rubber. Sam was still six seconds in the lead. By the time he whipped past the finish flag, he was 17.35 seconds in front of Jim Rathmann's Chiropractic Special (named after its sponsor, Chiropractor Ray Sabourin). He had careened around the 500-lap course in 3 hr. 41 min. 14.25 sec., an average of 135.601 m.p.h.-the fastest 500 on record...
...established by Massachusetts-born Millionaire Merchant George Peabody) helped set up state departments of education in the South, opened schools to train teachers, was partly responsible for the Southern Education Board, which sparked a national crusade to improve and finance Southern schools. The Rockefeller Foundation, partly following the Peabody lead, plunged into medical research, virtually eliminated hookworm from the South, wrestled with diseases all over the world. Andrew Carnegie's money sprinkled public libraries across the nation, set up pensions for college teachers and, by supporting the famed Flexner report on U.S. and Canadian medical schools, revolutionized medical education...
...Fleet Street Crisis," as it came to be called, spread across the front pages of the newspapers, called forth lead editorials in the prestigious (and prosperous) London Times and Manchester Guardian, and stirred a five-hour House of Commons debate in which the press was alternately consoled for its economic ills and cuffed for its sensationalism...
...shek will bite the hand that feeds him, but has very few teeth left. Said the neutralist newspaper Le Monde: "The Nationalists have lost almost all hope of winning back China. This sense of frustration naturally nourishes the feeling of latent bitterness against the Americans." If the riots "lead to fresh thinking about Formosa," said the Manchester Guardian, "they will have done some good." The U.S.-baiting weekly Spectator argued: "American diplomacy has been playing at blind man's buff in Southeast Asia. The time has now come to bring the game...