Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial; 2) of his own responsibility, grant pardons to Mr. Sacco, to Mr. Vanzetti; 3) may let the law take its course. When, in his office beneath the Golden Dome of the State House at Boston, he sits down to consider his decision, what arguments are there that might lead him to decide in favor of the shoemaker and the fish-peddler? What is the case for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...
...them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
...disposition to or resistance to cancer is inheritable. She has performed, during 16 years, 80,000 cancer experiments on mice. The two recommended a central bureau for cancer statistics, agreeing that in three generations (about 90 years) man would have enough cancer data to draw conclusions that would lead to a cure...
...Royal Highness, if the imperial schedule is not disturbed, will arrive at the Parliament Building on May 9 in one of the ten British Crossley cars at his official disposal in Australia. Before an assembled throng he will stand with Dame Nellie Melba, 68, "greatest Australian," who will lead a mighty singing of "God Save the King." Soon the Duke will step within, open Parliament, signalize that the world has a new Great Capital...
...hearts, to lead out the jack of diamonds...