Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four leading characters are K. A. Perry '28, playing the part of Jim Morgan, elderly cattleman and father of the hero, Hank Morgan, who is portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessica Hill, Radcliffe '30, fills the other juvenile lead, and plays the part of a young school mistress who is wooed by Hank. The part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the old West is taken by Frances Small, Radcliffe...
...gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known an Anglo-American friendship. It is, of course, a most dangerous malady and may lead to results almost too appalling to contemplate...
...they recommended to the superintendent the adoption of poisoned books; the effect on your school children of the "continued newspaper characterization of your proceedings as a travesty on justice; the repeated and uncontradicted editorial designation of this trial as before a packed jury and an admittedly prejudiced judge, all lead me to desire to escape being a party to the continuance of what is almost universally regarded as burlesque...
...includes iron & steel industries of France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Saar. They agreed to limit their production in accordance with the volume of demand; they have made money. Whereas until 1924 Great Britain exported more iron & steel than any other European country, in 1925 France took the lead. Last year Germany became leader (5,348 metric tons). However, England's coal strike last year (TIME, May 10, 1926 et seq.) had a disastrous effect on her trade...
This ta-ra-boom vibrated over Illinois, over Indiana, over Ohio, and set quivering the editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which once had individuality and still has prestige. Its editors threw off their eyeshades; reached for their fifes, ever ready among the lead pencils on their desks; and shrilled in tune with the Tribune: "This institution [University of Wisconsin], like many others, is said to be honeycombed with radical doctrinaires, internationalists and aliens. The boys have been led to believe that they should refuse to submit to military training and discipline. Why cannot all such academic proponents...