Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, on the Sabbath, Bishop Brown went to services at St. Paul's Church and took the sacrament from the hands of Bishop Cheshire who pronounced: "Ye who do truly and earnestly repent of your sins . . . and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God . . . draw near with faith and take His holy sacrament . . ." Later the same day, Bishop Brown preached at the Labor Temple and declared...
...from one rat to another and thus bring about wholesale extermination. On the other hand, investigators for the State Board of Health find possible contamination of human food from such infected rats. Experiments failed to demonstrate any great efficiency in the so-called exterminators but showed that they might lead to the production of a chronic carrier state, and that bacteria thus carried could cause food poisoning. The State Board of Health has ruled against the sale or exposure for sale of such bacterial rat exterminators...
...planes, entered by the French Ministère de la Guerre, won the Liberty Motors Trophy Race (for observation planes) by a piece of teamwork, common enough in bicycle and running races, but unheard-of in the air. The first Breguet (Pilot, Captain d'Oisy) roared into the lead as a pacemaker, led off U. S. Pilot Henderson, while the second (Pilot, Captain Lemaitre) shot from behind...
This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...
Coach Roper again kept some of his regulars on the sidelines at the opening of the game, and the brilliant Slagle did not enter the contest till the Tigers were in the lead, 3 to 0. Last year Princeton defeated the Navy, 17 to 14, but this year's Annapolis team is heralded as the strongest team that has represented the bluejackets in several seasons...