Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Boston Transcript: "A careful reading of the confidential Guide does not lead to the conclusion that much of it is wrong. On the contrary, the impression one gains is that most of it is right...
...fourth inning of the eighth game for the minor league championship. In that inning two sturdy Baltimorons, Batters Porter and Brainard, smashed home runs over the centerfield fence, brought in three runs with the result that Deberry, no longer smiling, was removed from the box and Baltimore gained a lead which gave them the game, 5 runs to 2, the series 5 games...
...scene between a male of the lower stratum, somewhat stimulated by alcohol, and the feminine partner of his misery, weary after a day at the washtub or scrubbing the halls of an apartment house. The mental states of the two, it must be plain, are hardly such as to lead them to pause for consideration . . . of the economic problems of the 21st century...
...fray with the thing he has built. A fair contention is that these lie with in the realms of the spirit. Whether the dreams of philosophy or the vapors of mysticism or the rigors of a revealed religion or even the flickering flare of a poet's fancy lead him on, he must at last seek refreshment and reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world which Bertrand Russell describes as just beyond the cavern of despair where Self must die, out "where the Gate of Renunciation leads again to the daylight...
Surely there are certain aspects of the case which might lead to this hope. For this treaty has been formulated in an atmosphere of peace--not of war, for the passions of the struggle have had six years to cool. These diplomats see peace as an economic necessity, and they are willing to sacrifice something for it. Evidently, the world is at last worried about its eternal warring, so worried as to attempt the novel in preventing war. Therefore, the person who cherishes any delight in the results of the gathering beside the waters of Lake Maggiore is not insanely...