Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had designed that his intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour by steam, he would have clearly foretold it by His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell...
Recent experience has left the proponents of mutual guarantee systems a little less sure of their theories. For the effect of thus guaranteeing a bank against the results of failure was to lead directly to the creation of weak banks run by inexperienced men, and to the acceptance by banks of business ordinarily refused as unsafe. Oklahoma, which gave birth to this plan, has had the bitterest experience with it. It has been found that in periods of pressure, more failures result and greater losses to depositors, than would otherwise occur. Since this guarantee plan has never been introduced into...
...Lord Haldane, Lord Chancellor, a Liberal in the Labor den, gave the lead to the Socialists by cutting down his large salary ($42,500). Patrick Hastings, Attorney General, was reported to be sticking to his $29,750 salary and to his fees which easily reach $125,000 a year. John Burns, Minister of Health, boldly asserted that he intended to stick to every penny of his $8,500 a year...
Captain Charles O'Hearn, no doubt, will feel at a loss without his ancient rival George Owen Jr. on the ice,--and the University would like, almost as much as Captain O'Hearn, to see its former Paladin perform. Unfortunately, the paths of glory lead but to graduation. But there are, around Harvard, still a few men who can play hockey-- to use a boastful expression--and perhaps Captain O'Hearn can be consoled. No one wants to smash Yale's dreams of empire, of course--as Mr. Heywood Broun philosophized, "Some of my best friends are Yale...
...Yale was never in doubt. J. N. Watters of Winchester, the Harvard anchor man, finishing with a halflap advantage in the fast time of 8 minutes, 11 and 2-5 seconds. The M. I. T. one-mile relay was a closer affair, the Crimson being able to boost the lead to only 12 yards at the finish...