Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Wills, 1925 leader of the women, ill during most of the 1926 tournaments, does not appear in the new list...
...Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education was established by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to honor the name of the late Professor Alexander Inglis, of the School, who, at the time of his death in 1924, was an outstanding leader in the field of secondary education. Through the lectures, which are open to the public and are published annually, the School has an opportunity to make contribution to the field to which Professor Inglis devoted his life work...
...action has been the principle worry with regard to Shanghal General Sun, who holds at present the province in which Shanghai is located, is opposing the advance of the nationalist leader, General Chiang. The foreign population of the port and surrounding country of Shanghai is approximately 40,000 and the Chinese population about 1,300,000. There are huge investments there, both foreign and Chinese which would be jeopardized, as well as the lives of the citizens, if the Chinese armies were to try to seize Shanghai. It is for this reason that various governments are sending ships and soldiers...
...Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely covered with pictures of females...
...original plan was to ride the proposed law through the Legislature in an unobtrusive gocart. But Senator Bernard Downing, Democrat leader, heard of it at Albany; cried: "The State Senate will give such a proposition a great deal of serious attention...