Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's delay in taking definite action on the National Defense Education Act has been a source of amazement and disappointment both here and at other schools. That Harvard not only failed to lead the opposition to the loyalty provisions in the Act but also failed to follow the lead given by Princeton, Swarthmore and other institutions no doubt comes as a shock to all those who picture the University as the nation's champion of academic freedom...
Antibody tests have proved that Dr. Grace's cancer-causing agent is not the polyoma virus. The answers to what it is and whether it will lead to protection against human cancer may take years (and millions of mice) to find...
Another Alumnus. Angola Prison remains Oster's favorite folk source, and Robert Pete Williams, 42, his favorite singer. A lifer for shooting and killing a man, Williams has, in Oster's view, the "tremendous drive and anguish" that characterized the fabled Lead Belly, another Angola alumnus. Williams recently improvised his own prisoner's blues...
...present monetary problems, such as inflation and a concentration of capital. They believe that a return to the rigid fiscal discipline of the gold standard would act as a brake on inflation by preventing governments from overspending, head off world recessions by doing away with the excesses that lead to them. A full gold standard, as they see it, would also put a damper on sudden expansions of credit not backed by gold, help stabilize prices, and step up the flow of capital-and thus international trade-by making all currencies freely convertible into gold...
...runs to the alcoholic playwright (Lee Cobb), urges him to start rewriting, assaults him with such rancid boffolas as: "Your cough is the illegitimate child of you and those cigarettes." They redo the play in four weeks; the secretary is cast in the female lead, the play is a smash, the girl proposes to Gable in Sardi...