Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intricacies of state finance. He openly defied them: "Take care, my friends! Your measures will not produce the revenue which you expect. We shall run into danger, unless you bring to the Treasury important sums of which there is immediate need. France will treat with severity those who lead her into another phase of inadequate taxation followed by inflation and ultimately by disaster!" The Significance. Financial experts noted that the Doumer scheme rests squarely upon the single principle of "indirect taxation" (taxes to be paid in the form of a disagreeable little stamp every time anybody buys anything...
Friends spoke sorrowingly of her "nervous condition. . . . ' Less charitable observers noted that never, when slated to lead an orchestra, has Conductor Leginska been missing from her dais...
...England, at Liverpool, Dr. William Blair Bell, Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Liverpool, has been treating cancer patients by injecting into their veins a certain amount of metallic lead in a very fine state of suspension, a so-called colloidal lead. He has treated 250 patients. Of these 50, or one out of five, showed improvement. The solution is very unstable; keeps only 48 hours; cannot be transported. Patients must be hospitalized and kept under exceptionally expert supervision. Dr. Wood reported...
...Jean Painleve was seen shepherding his cultures before the lens: "Mon cher Jean! You have a 'movie face'! A fig for your science! Mais le cinema! Ah le cinemast to reporters: "I certainly accepted the offer of my friend M. Sti.... Why not? My father has found time to lead two or three men's lives in the last few years.... Why should I not act for the cinemas, and yet continue my histological research...
Helen Mencken plays the leading feminine role in New York. Miss Mencken having recently been substituted for Emily Stevens. Frances Hyde, now with the Theatre Guild in New York, took the lead in the Dramatic Club production, while Eduardo Sanchez '26 played opposite...