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Word: leading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from it for that high crime. These two are LEV DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY and GRIGORY EVSEEVITCH ZINOVIEV. Their names have been among the best known in Soviet history and there are dark reasons why they may become so again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Political Execution | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Price fixing and subsidy will both increase the surplus instead of diminishing it. Putting the Government directly into business is merely a combination of subsidy and price fixing aggravated by political pressure. These expedients would lead logically to telling the farmer by law what and how much he should plant and where he should plant it, and what and how much he should sell and where he should sell it. The most effective means of dealing with surplus crops is to reduce the surplus acreage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The State of the Union | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...wants to lead a girl astray, he tries to get liquor into her so that she loses her senses and self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: To Make a Better Country | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Since there are no Sophomore lettermen this year, the leadership of the Crimson harriers in 1928 will fall on one of these four men. A repetition of last year's situation is therefore impossible, when J. L. Reid '29, then a Sophomore, was selected to lead this year's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS WILL ELECT LEADER FOR 1928 RUNNERS TOMORROW | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...long dash by Clark followed by a true hard shot was the only scoring in the fifth chukker and the teams entered the sixth frame deadlocked, 5-5. The 1931 mallet-wielders gained the lead on a foul by Walker, who immediately turned the tables on them by a closeup shot, enabling the Artillery team to come out on the long end of the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAVY ARTILLERY DRIVE DEFEATS 1931 POLOISTS | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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