Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Professor John Erskine startled Columbia again. It was a hot night on Morningside Heights. The Columbia Gymnasium was packed by people who had come not only to hear Professor Walter Henry Hall lead his symphony orchestra through Beethoven's overture to "Egmont" and Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture, but likewise to investigate an extraordinary item printed in the pro- gram: Piano concerto in D major Mozart...
...small red bull dashes around a bend on a frozen river pulling the lead trace of a sledge, a husky dog snapping at his hocks, a" nervous German prospector clinging to the baggage. ... A polar she-bear defends her cubs. . . . An Indian child and crone slay a swimming moose with a hand-ax. . . . A cunning wolf robs fishnets. . . . An Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post...
...believed that many of the Filipinos would hate to have the Americans leave. Petite brown ballarinas had begun to like U. S. soldiers, sailors, wealthy businessmen, dance halls, automobiles from Detroit, clothes from Chicago. There is a possibility that General Aguinaldo may come out of his retirement to lead Americanists if Filipinos Quezon and Roxas continue their noncooperation policy toward Governor General Wood...
...your issue for July 5, p. 8, appears an article which will lead your readers to believe that there has been a failure in a bona fide attempt to raise...
...implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...