Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This dinner calls for an elaborate ritual. First one of the guests must "call the pudding down" and another guest must "lead the pudding in." After that it is carved and eaten with rare old liquers to "wash it down...
Harvard has the men named above, and she has others, whose appeal is broad but no less intense. With their aid and with the experiments which she is making along educational lines she is as well equipped to cope with future problems and to lead future generations as she has proved herself to have been during the past three hundred years. Undergraduates of today may differ in many respects from those of yesterday but they have yet to demonstrate immunity to that intellectual zeal which is under the leadership of such teaching as the University affords, so fortunately contagious...
...vain mementoes of a frustrated plan, for new shares that seemed to promise them actual dividends. The late J. P. Morgan organized I. M. M. 25 years ago, close to the time when he organized the U. S. Steel Corp. His ideal was to create great corporations that would lead their fields. In steel he succeeded: in shipping he failed. The overdue, unpaid dividends on I. M. M. preferred stock now amount to tidy millions. The common stock, under such circumstances, has of course earned nothing...
...delegate. As there are 216 members of the University who are not, naturalized American citizens, there will be a large group from which to select the delegates. This league will meet once a month to discuss topics of international importance. At each meeting some professor or other authority will lead the discussion, give a 15-minute talk, and answer questions. At the close of each session a vote will be taken embodying the opinion of the council on the subject discussed...
...ignited, and the roar from the Mausers of firing squads is heard in the land. Eighteen members of the legislature of Morelos on Wednesday were taken from the chambers of their courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison as the commander of the firing squad dropped...