Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...habit, rather than an infrequent practice, as you imply. The statement that "he was never known to pray in church" is a gratuitous assumption and a slur upon his sincerity as a participant in public worship. What would you expect him to do?interrupt the preacher and offer to lead the congregation aloud in prayer...
...ourselves" and in evolving methods for their rehabilitation "we are dealing with a long procession of men and women who at present are babes in arms; who, as the revolving years come on, are quite certain, under the deadly percentages which the criminologists are beginning to establish ... to lead lives of crime." Mr. Baker's plea was for closer study of criminal psychopathy...
...These tendencies, if allowed to continue unchecked, are almost certain, on the one hand, to lead to severe economic reaction and depression, and are likely, on the other, to encourage the impression that Germany is not acting with due regard to her reparation obligations...
...innocent!" The words came from a young man, his back against a wall. A moment later eight rifles spat fire and lead. The young man fell forward, dead. He was 28-year-old Alfredo Jauregui who, a week before, had drawn a black ballot† that meant death for the murder in 1917 of General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime President of Bolivia...
...like all other libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American ideal of a free press. Any other course would lead to an arbitrary censorship as detrimental to American political liberty as to American academic thought...